From: Panagiotis Atmatzidis Date: 2013-02-01T08:18:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Project Ideas to get someone hired... Hello, On 31 Ιαν 2013, at 20:15 , Colby Callahan wrote: > I have started learning Ruby this past week and have down the basics of loops, filters, strings, arrays, hashes, functions, etc. > > Since I have no professional experience with the language, I figured I would complete a few projects on my own and see if I can get hired somewhere. > > What kinds of small projects might a beginning Ruby programmer take on that would demonstrate enough skill to get hired? Is Ruby code enough or would it have to be an actual Rails app? > > p.s. I have no idea how to deploy a rails application - environment seems impossible to set up - yes I have followed more than 5 tutorials exactly. Prob doesn't help I'm on a Windows 64 bit machine as it seems certain dll files and other things get messed up easily. > > Colby Mind you, I'm not an expert. Actually, I'm a newbe/amateur programmer and I've received 2 job offers just because I put some lines of code with sinatra and sqlite on github. Of course I didn't take the job because I'm *not* a programmer. However, in my view apart from your own projects, it would "pay a lot" to get active and involved with current "hot projects" like octopress (instead building your own static website generator), nokogiri (ruby gem), ROR, spree (e-commerce solution) and so on. As for your own project, I'd do gladly something *I need* not something just for the sake of doing it. best regards, Panagiotis (atmosx) Atmatzidis email: atma@convalesco.org URL: http://www.convalesco.org GnuPG ID: 0xE736C6A0 gpg --keyserver x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xE736C6A0 -- The wise man said: "Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."