Ruby on Rails. Get the Head first Rails book then the Agile programmer book, see amazon. There 2 excellent Ruby books:Beginning Ruby and Pragmatic Ruby but you

Ruby on Rails. Get the Head first Rails book then the Agile programmer book, see amazon. There 2 excellent Ruby books:Beginning Ruby and Pragmatic Ruby but you can do those later. Then practice like hell. meaning do each project in each book 10 times until you understand how to do it without look at the book. Then do some screencasts. Put all your projects even the ones from books and screencasts online. In the meantime, make something, anything. Take a project from one the books and modify it. Then make another thing. Then make something that someone else already made with rails. Now you have 3 sites in your portfolio. A month has passed. Send the links to your projects and a brief email to the companies that do rails regardless if they have opens or not. Also list the 3 things unique about you. Why should they hire you versus another person who also knows some RoR? With this you should be able to a choice from several junior rails positions.