The 2008 Rails Rumble, a competition for developing applications using the Ruby on Rails framework, is kicking off at midnight with sponsorship from GitHub, which is offering free private repositories to all 237 participating teams and a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon for the winner. Anticipation is high for the innovative applications expected from this event, and updates will be available on the Rails Rumble Blog. The excitement is shared by GitHub's Tom Preston-Werner, who expressed eagerness to see the outcomes of the competition.