added useful error messages to JS

Pretty good. Quick and straight to the point, had to think about it a little bit before coming up with my very naive solution :)

this is what i get for attempting kata at 2:30 am!

maybe slow queries yes, bad images optimisations and stuff

You sure can! So what's the issue here then? DB queries / overload? Lack of hardware?

My money is on sub-optimized Rails though :)

It's not Rails the problem. You can have great performances with Rails.

is there any plans to take the site off rails? this is a sweet ui and i love the honor system. but its slower than blackstrap molasses.

what happens if the data changes?

whole lotta cheating going on in this one

cute

This really needs a better problem description. One or two examples of input / output would be enough.

Agreed. The specs on this kata range from incredibly vague to outright misleading. As a 4kyu problem, this can take an hour or longer for a user to complete - and if the kata description leads them in the wrong direction it can be incredibly frustrating.

Additionally, the kata builds the assumption that the data for votes will be received in a specific format (a,b,c,d,e) when the random tests use different data. This should be noted in the kata description.