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>I wonder if some startups/smaller companies would be willing to take on a junior developer (@junior salary), and if so, what deliverables would he have to show to get through the door? e.g. an end-to-end RoR|django app on github?

Of course they would! Providing he has built some open source / portfolio work by the end of those 5 months, a lot of companies would be more than willing to take on a junior at that level. :-)

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well, that's a good start. but reading HN is about as close as I ever get to startups, so I really don't know what technologies to recommend him to study, nor what scope his projects should reach before he can realistically expect to be employable. Any pointers? e.g. Is RoR as ubiquitous as I imagine it to be?

The technology (at least in my experience) isn't as important as the ability to code. If you can code perfect Ruby, chances are you can (with a bit of practice) do the same in Python.

However, in reality a lot of companies hire purely on a per language basis which sucks.

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