How to find your first Rails job

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  • If you're wondering how to build up these skills, take a look at the Ruby and Rails review reading list which I've recently been working through. My ongoing study guide has a fuller list of resources.

  • railsdevs.com

    The reverse job board for Ruby on Rails developers.

  • I found most of my job leads in the Ruby on Rails Link community on Slack, and on Rails Devs. I also found a few on Twitter and on the StimulusReflex community on Discord.

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  • Polish your GitHub portfolio. Here's mine: github.com/fpsvogel. Make sure each of your pinned projects has a nice README including a summary of why it's on portfolio. If you want to spend even more time perfecting your READMEs, here's an awesome README list to give you ideas, and here are a few that are built specifically as part of a learner's portfolio of Rails apps: lortza/tarot, lortza/sorrygirl, lortza/therapy_tracker.

  • tarot

    Readme for the tarot repo on bitbucket (by lortza)

  • Polish your GitHub portfolio. Here's mine: github.com/fpsvogel. Make sure each of your pinned projects has a nice README including a summary of why it's on portfolio. If you want to spend even more time perfecting your READMEs, here's an awesome README list to give you ideas, and here are a few that are built specifically as part of a learner's portfolio of Rails apps: lortza/tarot, lortza/sorrygirl, lortza/therapy_tracker.

  • sorrygirl

    Write an apology note and send it as Ryan Gosling

  • Polish your GitHub portfolio. Here's mine: github.com/fpsvogel. Make sure each of your pinned projects has a nice README including a summary of why it's on portfolio. If you want to spend even more time perfecting your READMEs, here's an awesome README list to give you ideas, and here are a few that are built specifically as part of a learner's portfolio of Rails apps: lortza/tarot, lortza/sorrygirl, lortza/therapy_tracker.

  • therapy_tracker

    tracking log for physical therapy

  • Polish your GitHub portfolio. Here's mine: github.com/fpsvogel. Make sure each of your pinned projects has a nice README including a summary of why it's on portfolio. If you want to spend even more time perfecting your READMEs, here's an awesome README list to give you ideas, and here are a few that are built specifically as part of a learner's portfolio of Rails apps: lortza/tarot, lortza/sorrygirl, lortza/therapy_tracker.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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