From: Mike Stephens Date: 2010-11-19T21:32:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Where to start from? Go onto a web job site and type in Ruby. You'll then see lists of the skills people expect before they consider you a Ruby developer. Here's a typical one today The Role We are looking for an experienced Rails Developer to help continue with our new development projects. You will have at least a couple of years experience working with Ruby and Rails in large test driven deployments. You will be working alongside an established team of contract and permenant expert developers. The Skills Web technologies - you will need to be an EXPERT in all of these R uby and/or Rails PHP5 - including knowledge of frameworks and OO development using PHP. JavaScript - to utilise the most modern aspects of web development A combination of other suitable technologies for scalable web solutions Code & performance optimisation - to squeeze the most out of each function and line of code. Unit/functional testing - to make sure each release is as stable as can be. Web Systems Apache - administration and configuration Nginx and others? Great! Operating systems Linux administration - for scalable solutions Knowledge of the Shell to automate and improve productivity. Database SQL/NoSQL - Whichever flavour that will provide most suitable scalable and stable environment -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.