Comment by netskrill

I, myself didnt have any programming experience, and took an online rails bootcamp, graduated and got a job from a fortune 50 company as a SW engineer. I was able to ramp up with the codebase relatively quickly and committing/completing user stories in weeks. I did all those tutorials you can think of...code school, code academy, coursera(that rotten potatoes app), and the one I took had a lot of structure and built a production worth app as the main course, all through TDD, capybara, factories, stripe payment integration. The instructors were focused on teaching how to build shippable code. Comapleting the course,and writing a kickass readme files on your github projects, should land you some interviews. Of course, i had to go above and beyond to get past recruiters, who focus on rails experience only...