Ask HN: I learned RoR... what next?

Re:Ask HN: I learned RoR... what next? by skrebbel on Sunday February 05, 2012 @01:43PM (#3554774)

IMHO, you're taking the wrong approach. Make something you'd like to make, then find the tools you need for that.

I mean, if you want to hack on your house so that it says "hey there!" whenever your friend (and not the mailman) walks in front of your house, I doubt CoffeeScript and MongoDB are going to get you far.

If you want to make a social local web app startup coolness like the other kids though, then yeah, those are fine.

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Re:Ask HN: I learned RoR... what next? by holgersindbaek on Sunday February 05, 2012 @01:47PM (#3554785)

Get what you are saying and very much agree with you :-).

I just have some intermediate time now (I'm studying at the moment) before I'll start on another thing and would like to look into some RoR-stuff, since I'm a hooked on it (I need my junk!).

So what should you be able to do in combination with RoR if you want a startup in the Bay Area to jump up and down over your skills?

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Re:Ask HN: I learned RoR... what next? by lightyrs on Sunday February 05, 2012 @02:22PM (#3554899)

They won't. Learn how to work with other engineers, designers, product managers, project managers, executives, operations, etc. Learn test-driven development. Learn how to say no to new projects. Learn when to say yes.

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Re:Ask HN: I learned RoR... what next? by holgersindbaek on Sunday February 05, 2012 @02:33PM (#3554948)

I'm studying at Hyper Island (HyperIsland.se), where we spend most of our time trying to learn that.

If you haven't gotten any skills to offer in such a team, you'll probably never get the chance to do so.

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