I found a local placing hiring Ruby developers, and applied. They had a take home project, so I went to Borders and bought Hartl's Rails book and ended up gett

I found a local placing hiring Ruby developers, and applied. They had a take home project, so I went to Borders and bought Hartl's Rails book and ended up getting hired. I had used a few other languages before but hadn't done much in the way of web stuff (this was almost 15 years ago) I'd say try to find places that are looking for people that know things that you've been playing around with. Bring code to show them and be prepared to demonstrate what you know but don't pretend to know anything you don't. Good luck!