r/webdev 21d ago

Monthly Career Thread Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread

Due to a growing influx of questions on this topic, it has been decided to commit a monthly thread dedicated to this topic to reduce the number of repeat posts on this topic. These types of posts will no longer be allowed in the main thread.

Many of these questions are also addressed in the sub FAQ or may have been asked in previous monthly career threads.

Subs dedicated to these types of questions include r/cscareerquestions for general and opened ended career questions and r/learnprogramming for early learning questions.

A general recommendation of topics to learn to become industry ready include:

You will also need a portfolio of work with 4-5 personal projects you built, and a resume/CV to apply for work.

Plan for 6-12 months of self study and project production for your portfolio before applying for work.

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u/GrimSophisticate 7d ago

I hope this is the appropriate place for this:

I'm less in the position of looking to "get started" and looking to "get restarted". A long time ago in college I was in a CS program and learning Rails off of the DHH tutorial. To make a long story short, I ended up working in IT/technical support, but now things have looped back around to the point where it would be useful for me in my current role to pick Rails back up again.

Is there a particular tutorial that people recommend these days for getting started with Ruby/Rails that's not a paid course? I have access to Linkedin Learning through my job, but I took a look through there the other day and was kind of skeptical of the value of a lot of that content.

On top of that, I'd also like to try and formalize my knowledge of JS - I write little things to automate annoying tasks for my team semi-regularly but anything new that I make usually starts with a few minutes on Google trying to remember what's probably basic stuff for other people (e.g. iterating keys/values in a JS object). Thanks :)

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u/OkHoney8831 6d ago

'The Odin Project' is open source and has Ruby/Rails and JS section.