The First Annual Rails Rumble Championship has been announced.

Rails Rumble is a competition to test your Ruby on Rails hacking skills by building a brand new web application over two days—September 8-9, 2007. Your team, consisting of up to four people, gets just 48 hours to design, develop, and deploy a web application from scratch. The winners of the Rumble will be judged by the Rails community. There will be prizes and Ruby East will showcase some of winners at their conference.

Not only does it sound like fun, but this could be a good opportunity to dig up those back-of-the-envelope and cocktail-napkin ideas that you’ve been saving and turn them into a real web applications (while getting great exposure). I’ve definitely got a few of those lying around, but unfortunately I’m booked that weekend.

I think it would be cool to see coders who don’t know each other collaborate. I also think it would be sweet to have teams grouped around a common idea: maybe four women coders willing to show up the boys, or four coders interested in applications for charaties or non-profits, or coders from four countries putting together an international application, or four college kids improving the student loan experience… You get the idea.

Don’t have a team of four? You can probably find other solo-programmers by posting in the comments to this post or via the Ruby on Rails list.

Who knows? Maybe your quartet will become the founders of the next killer web app.

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