I'm doing the same ruby on rails tutorial! I finished chapter 3 today and it was pretty fun, and satisfying to run the test and fix the simple bugs. I'm curious

I'm doing the same ruby on rails tutorial! I finished chapter 3 today and it was pretty fun, and satisfying to run the test and fix the simple bugs. I'm curious, did you or did you not use your side project/portfolio to get your job? How did you demonstrate your skill and technical prowess sufficiently to get a job doing it? Thanks.