When I was interviewing for my first developer job (about three years ago) I found most employers/interviewers were far more interested in side projects I had b

When I was interviewing for my first developer job (about three years ago) I found most employers/interviewers were far more interested in side projects I had been doing for fun than anything I did for/at school. If you already have some side stuff you do on your own try to highlight those during the interview process, if you don't you might want to consider starting one. Ideally open source these (on GitHub or similar) so they can see the quality of the code you write in "real life" (i.e. as opposed to whiteboarding during an interview). Learning other languages can also be helpful, even if you're only interested in Ruby stuff. Each language you learn will make you a better programmer, and it demonstrates to potential employers a desire to learn (very important in our industry).