Today, I’m excited to be launching Summer of Rails, a new website for the Rails community.

Like a lot of people, I’m pretty stoked about developing applications in Ruby in Rails. I’ve gotten the books, built a shopping cart, all that stuff. But I still haven’t launched my first Rails site. And I’m guessing I’m not alone.

So, here’s the Summer of Rails challenge.

• Learn Rails
• Make something useful
• Badge it

Easy, right? So let’s see how many Rails apps we can launch by the end of summer!

I’m in Chicago for RailsConf. The conference doesn’t start until tomorrow, but the Rails Guidebook and hackfest are happening for those who arrive early.

I’ll probably be at the hackfest today… maybe I’ll see you there?