There are so many jobs out there in rails / ruby. I really want to learn it, but the tutorials I've seen teach you how to generate a blog engine. I want some real world examples and tutorials, where's the best place to start?
Railscasts was awesome. In particular, I really loved the ASCIIcast feature on each video. I can't say enough about how helpful that site was in terms of helping me learn Rails.
Just today, another commenter [1] said that...
The job market for Rails devs seems to be pretty dry.
Many Rails devs I know, including myself, do not get even
10% of Rails job offers anymore, as it used to be until a
couple of years ago.
That's about 20% of the jobs.
1. If they tried hiring me as a mid-level Rails dev, I'd be too inexperienced in Rails
2. If they tried hiring me as a staring Rails dev, I'd be too underpaid
So apparently, my past web dev skills are non-transferrable to some companies that hire web developers. Yikes.