The results are in! I want to thank everyone for submitting to this contest, along with the sponsors for donating the prizes. Congratulations to the winners!
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Grand Prize Winner
http://lindsaar.net/ruby-on-rails-tips/ -
1st Place
http://www.thechrisoshow.com/2008/4/13/five-rails-tips -
2nd Place
http://workswithruby.com/2008/4/5-rails-tips -
3rd Place
http://domainspecific.blogspot.com/2008/05/5-rails-tips.html -
4th Place
http://zilkey.com/2008/5/5/rails-view-tips -
5th Place
http://zargony.com/2008/04/28/five-tips-for-developing-rails-applications -
6th Place
http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=60456 -
7th Place
http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/five_activerecord_tips -
8th Place
http://www.stephenchu.com/2008/03/boost-your-controller-paramsfu.html -
9th Place
http://scoop.cheerfactory.co.uk/2008/04/25/5-rails-tips/
It was no easy task choosing these winners. There were so many excellent submissions. I wish I had enough prizes for everyone - you all deserve it. Here are all other submissions. Please check them out as they are well worth reading!
- http://rpheath.com/posts/323-railscasts-contest-5-rails-tips
- http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/04/19/5-rails-tips
- http://www.thechrisoshow.com/2008/5/4/five-tips-for-testing-rails
- http://www.lableure.be/main/home/article-59.htm
- http://www.dbnetworx.de/2008/04/22/5-rails-tips-plus-links/
- http://informationrain.com/2008/05/04/spice-up-your-rails-app-with-regular-expressions/
- http://railstips.heroku.com/
- http://upstaterb.org/2008/4/24/5-tips-for-activeresource
- http://boga.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/ruby-19-porting-notes/
- http://www.makemesimple.com/blog/2008/05/05/high-five-five-tips-on-testing-with-rails/
- http://railsonedge.blogspot.com/
- http://dambalah.com/2008/05/06/five-rails-tips/
- http://jrmehle.com/2008/04/07/5-rails-tips/
- http://thetacom.info/2008/02/17/my-10-favorite-rails-plugins/
- http://bjhess.com/bjhessblog/2008/04/27/five-rails-tips/
- http://blog.kylebanker.com/2008/04/5-core-extension-tips/
- http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=61190
- http://gwynmorfey.com/categories/1/articles/130-five-scottish-beauties
- http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=60447
- http://lambdasquire.blogspot.com/2008/04/5-rails-tips.html
- http://brycemcd.blogspot.com/2008/05/five-useful-rails-tips.html
- http://lukewendling.dtdns.net/articles/2008/04/14/railscasts-contest-for-may-5/
- http://blog.ninjahideout.com/posts/5-misc-rails-tips
- http://drand48.blogspot.com/2008/05/5-rails-tips.html
- http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=18032
- http://www.sandelman.ca/mcr/blog/2008/04/30/
- http://www.ajaxrussia.com/archives/ruby-on-rails-tips-and-tricks#english
- http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=60081#p60081
- http://thetacom.info/2008/03/24/essentials-for-a-web-developers-toolbox/
- http://dominicson.com/?p=9
- http://twitter.com/sandofsky/statuses/784639061
- http://daveamos.tumblr.com/post/31389022
- http://blog.ramsesoriginal.org/2008/05/04/5-tips-for-ruby-on-rails/
- http://www.bangmyhead.com:12032/2008/5/3/getting-started
- http://sanityuntethered.blogspot.com/2008/04/51-tips-for-n00bs-on-rails.html
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5 Tips at www.matthewtodd.org
- http://www.matthewtodd.org/2008/04/21/rails-tip-1-reloadable-custom-formbuilder/
- http://www.matthewtodd.org/2008/04/22/rails-tip-2-faking-data-in-tests/
- http://www.matthewtodd.org/2008/04/23/rails-tip-3-filter-blobs-from-activerecord-logging/
- http://www.matthewtodd.org/2008/04/24/rails-tip-4-writing-capistrano-recipes-to-be-loaded-from-gems/
- http://www.matthewtodd.org/2008/04/25/rails-tip-5-atom-param-parser/
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5 Tips at www.unboundimagination.com
- http://www.unboundimagination.com/Rails-Plugin:-TextMate-Syntax-Highlighting
- http://www.unboundimagination.com/Rails-Plugin:-Javascript-Dependency-Manager
- http://www.unboundimagination.com/Rails-Plugin:-Simple-Nav
- http://www.unboundimagination.com/Current-Git-Branch-in-Bash-Prompt
- http://www.unboundimagination.com/Hiding-e-mails-from-bots-but-not-users
- 5 Tips at railsforum.com
Grand Prize |
thanks to |
| 8 GB iPod Touch | Code Spaces |
| Code Spaces Enterprise Plan for 1 Year | Code Spaces |
| Harvest Basic Plan for 1 Year | Harvest |
| $50 to the Pragmatic Bookshelf | Pragmatic Programmers |
| $50 Amazon gift card | Shine Technologies |
| $50 iTunes gift card | Trevor Turk |
1st Place |
thanks to |
| PeepCode Unlimited | PeepCode |
| Code Spaces Enterprise Plan for 1 Year | Code Spaces |
| $50 to the Pragmatic Bookshelf | Pragmatic Programmers |
| $50 Amazon gift card | Shine Technologies |
| 16bugs Big Plan for 1 Year | 16bugs |
2nd-4th Place |
thanks to |
| Printed PeepCode Minibook | PeepCode |
| Code Spaces Enterprise Plan for 1 Year | Code Spaces |
| $50 to the Pragmatic Bookshelf | Pragmatic Programmers |
| $50 Amazon gift card | Shine Technologies |
| 16bugs Basic Plan for 1 Year | 16bugs |
5th-9th Place |
thanks to |
| $50 to the Pragmatic Bookshelf | Pragmatic Programmers |
| $25 Amazon gift card | Rising Sun & rubyplus.org |
I will be contacting the winners and sponsors over email about how to proceed with the prizes. Again, thank you everyone for making this contest a success. I had a lot of fun reading everyone's tips!
