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There are so many jobs out there in rails / ruby. I really want to learn it, but the tutorials I've seen teach you how to generate a blog engine. I want some re

There are so many jobs out there in rails / ruby. I really want to learn it, but the tutorials I've seen teach you how to generate a blog engine. I want some real world examples and tutorials, where's the best place to start?

meesterdude 9y ago
:) For me, I really got a lot of value out of railscasts.com. I watched all of them like people watch their favorite TV shows. Helped me see the world through rails developer eyes.
- slantyyz 9y ago
  I used to pay for a subscription to Railscasts, and it was money well spent. It's too bad that Ryan stopped making new videos. Railscasts was awesome. In particular, I really loved the ASCIIcast feature on each video. I can't say enough about how helpful that site was in terms of helping me learn Rails.
dyeje 9y ago
Tutorials are always going to be toy problems. If you want to work on real world problems, make something real.
majewsky 9y ago
> There are so many jobs out there in rails / ruby. Just today, another commenter [1] said that... The job market for Rails devs seems to be pretty dry. Many Rails devs I know, including myself, do not get even 10% of Rails job offers anymore, as it used to be until a couple of years ago. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14863819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14863819
- roryisok 9y ago
  ok, maybe "so many" is a little bit of an exaggeration. WeWorkRemotely.com lists 72 programming jobs at the moment, and 16 of those mention ruby and/or rails. That's about 20% of the jobs.
ccdev 9y ago
Tried getting a job to move to Rails development once. I have 5+ years of PHP and MVC frameworks experience. They said I can't get the job for two reasons: 1. If they tried hiring me as a mid-level Rails dev, I'd be too inexperienced in Rails 2. If they tried hiring me as a staring Rails dev, I'd be too underpaid So apparently, my past web dev skills are non-transferrable to some companies that hire web developers. Yikes.

meesterdude 9y ago

:) For me, I really got a lot of value out of railscasts.com. I watched all of them like people watch their favorite TV shows. Helped me see the world through rails developer eyes.

slantyyz 9y ago
I used to pay for a subscription to Railscasts, and it was money well spent. It's too bad that Ryan stopped making new videos. Railscasts was awesome. In particular, I really loved the ASCIIcast feature on each video. I can't say enough about how helpful that site was in terms of helping me learn Rails.

dyeje 9y ago

Tutorials are always going to be toy problems. If you want to work on real world problems, make something real.

majewsky 9y ago

> There are so many jobs out there in rails / ruby. Just today, another commenter [1] said that... The job market for Rails devs seems to be pretty dry. Many Rails devs I know, including myself, do not get even 10% of Rails job offers anymore, as it used to be until a couple of years ago. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14863819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14863819

roryisok 9y ago
ok, maybe "so many" is a little bit of an exaggeration. WeWorkRemotely.com lists 72 programming jobs at the moment, and 16 of those mention ruby and/or rails. That's about 20% of the jobs.

ccdev 9y ago

Tried getting a job to move to Rails development once. I have 5+ years of PHP and MVC frameworks experience. They said I can't get the job for two reasons: 1. If they tried hiring me as a mid-level Rails dev, I'd be too inexperienced in Rails 2. If they tried hiring me as a staring Rails dev, I'd be too underpaid So apparently, my past web dev skills are non-transferrable to some companies that hire web developers. Yikes.