How to Land Your First Ruby on Rails Job With No Experience And No CS Degree

If you've been looking to get into your first Ruby on Rails junior developer role, but you don't have enough experience or a Computer Science degree, watch the video because I'll share three steps to help you get your first junior developer role.

Freelancing platforms:
- Railsdevs
- Upwork
- Fiverr
- Freelancer
- Guru

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[SnoFlak]

I've landed a gig with option 2, and Rails/Ruby wasn't even a language/framework that I've used before. I'm primarily a JS/React developer, but those skills were enough to land me a spot at a local company, and I'm learning ruby/rails on the job. I also do not have a degree, or any college experience.

Its definitely got its transferable skills if you have some sort of understanding of programming as well. I'm picking it up fairly quickly, and in the case of the actual work? I'm working on projects that are already set up, and existing, doing feature additions, and bug fixes, so the majority of the heavy lifting is done. I can focus more on logic and flow of the framework as opposed to learning everything all at once and its definitely super nice! Being able to focus on building out additional methods in helpers, or making a new view, or even just tweaking them is a way nicer foot in the door to learning the framework than starting everything on my own.

[MSTennis]

Thank you so much for actual directed advice! It has a flow and a goal! I will keep you updated with my progress!

[DevlogBill]

I wish I had found this video sooner! I wish I heard of the top-down approach. I started from the bottom to up and it was painful! I am now 1 year and 2 months into full stack development and I wish I jumped into a framework much sooner like you recommended. I feel as if I had started top down, I would be leagues ahead compared to where I am at this present moment.

[et_matrix]

I am really confiddent enough in my Rails skill but I could not able to get freelancing jobs. With 4+ experience in Ruby and 3+ years experience in Rails. I am depressed recently.

[simbadlemarin]

Your bicycle riding metaphor is more applicable to someone using a web app, not building it. The developer is the one building "the bicycle" not the one "riding it".

[arcomarco]

"Learning about computer science " be more specific, what exactly?