Will I get a Ruby on Rails jobs in India as a college dropout?

There are couple of things you have to do as a must : 1. Learn and practice ruby . RoR is merely a framework but you wont be able to leverage it completely unless you know ruby inside out . My suggestion is to spend time on ruby till you are comfortable with metaprogramming and mixins concepts . 2. Create a github profile . Start cloning projects. I believe RoR owes a lot of its success to github . Currently ruby is second most popular language on github which means there is plenty of activity going on which converts to plenty of learning opportunities. 3. Become a contributor . Fork a project on github or create your own project there . Your github profile could be enough to land you a dream job. 4. Having Rails knowledge is not enough . You have to learn : Linux /Mac . Ruby programming on windows sucks .Period. Git . You should be very,very comfortable with git to become a Rails ninja. Javascript / Css concepts - Remember rails is a web framework so its imperative you know them . Rails has actually blurred the line between web developer and web designer . Startups don,t look at college degrees rather what you would bring to the table . If you can demonstrate your work ( on github) . You are most likely to end up with a dream job .

Yes it's possible to get a remote job with Ruby on Rails if you have good skills with the language.  ROR is a very in-demand language so it's relatively easy to find jobs (on platforms like ours or other places) Being a college dropout would not prevent you from getting a job, however companies would be asking why you dropped out. If you were dropping out but still spent 5 hours per day programming in Ruby on Rails for fun, then your dropout would be totally excusable. An office job is more difficult to find I imagine and would depend on the exact city that you live in. Ruby on Rails salaries for developers in India working remotely vary from $1,000/month for a junior developer who is able to pass Ruby on Rails tests to $3k (or more) for a senior developer. Ultimately the answer is: If you are skilled enough, you definitely can get a job in Ruby on Rails

The RoR talent base in India is very slim. Although, RoR seems to be a language of choice for top (read Valley-based) products, there are very few web-development/ product companies with deep experitise in RoR based out of India. We started with trying to build our education-focused product (http://studycopter.com) in RoR, but decided against it and opted for an alternate platform to alleviate possible hiring issues. Some time ago, I did an analysis on the availability of RoR talent in New Delhi. My unscientific method entailed looking at monster.com and filtering out available RoR talent in the NCR.  After a few searches this is what I found: for ~16,000+ candidates with expertise in PHP/ J2EE, there were ~221 with RoR expertise. The results for my search are on my blog: http://structuredrandomness.wordpress.com/ Granted, this was only a NCR focused search and doesn't account for quality of talent, type of work and multiple other factors, but it should give you a datapoint to frame your plan of action. It is important to note that we looked at RoR from a product owner's standpoint and as a prospective job-seeker, you might frame this issue very differently.  For instance, a much smaller talent pool might increase the chances of getting hired. You might want to check out new India-based product companies/ dev. shops and talk to engineering folk to get an idea of hireability of RoR hackers in India. Also, working remotely (as suggested by ) for a non-Indian company is always an option and might increase your odds of working on a bleeding-edge product.

Indian talent base is mostly focused on monotonous development patterns that does not require complex logic building. If Indians were good at writing advanced creative solutions, India would be a Silicon Valley, most companies only do testing and support out of India. It's not only RoR, but try looking for cloud API, mongo db, forget about it, even mvc in php, or asp,net mvc with entity framework. Technology comes last in India, we are even behind Indonesia for that matter. There are very few product companies in India, and the solution is double edge sword. According to trend, each currenct technologies like simple old php and jsp and asp etc will soon outdate in coming 5 years. Probably it's the time when you will be at peek in your career. If you start with technology where job market is rich, you will get job faster, but after 5 year you will outdate yourself easily. Look at what happened to COBOL programmers that were in boom 10 years in the past. If you will start with technology like RoR or anything that will be big hit in next 5 years, you will have a slow start, and less paying job to begin with, but it will pay off really well at your peek. If you go with new tech, people with old tech with high pay will laugh at you. If you go with old tech, people with new tech after 5 years will laugh at you. People are ignoring this, but you have to realize one thing that technology is changing faster then the past, what happen for COBOL to die in 10 years, now the gap will be only 5 years, look at Facebook and google, both developed technologies like fbml and google gears because of limitation of HTML, iPhone and iPad came and outdated them with HTML5. Indian IT industry will have a huge reform, all old technologies will be wiped out with cloud reforms in industry. Don't go with the crowd, stay focused towards future.

I'm a college dropout and a professional Ruby on Rails developer in India. Definitely you will get a job if you can present a good portfolio with an emphasis on projects and achievements.

I don't know how old this question is, but in case you are still looking for a job, drop me a message. We have recently founded a company (http://www.PostFridays.com), and are actively looking for RoR developers to join onboard. Work will be interesting, will give opportunity to work on both web and app development. Being a recently launched startup, we will be low on salaries (in range of what a typical salary in tier-II city that you can get) but can offer some equity. You can read my bio to see if I look like a promising guy to work with.  My LinkedIn contact is also there.

If you are a college dropout, you do not need to worry because there are plenty ofjobs for college dropouts especially in India. You said that you are learning ruby on rails, this is really wise idea as the market in India for Ruby on Rails is rapidly increasing and you can get a good salaried job once you are done with the training. Have a look at this post:   http://blog.myjobhelper.com/2015/01/30/can-create-resume-dropped-college/

You can start with doing freelance projects on sites like http://odesk.com and create a portfolio of work. If you have a good portfolio, then you have a good shot at getting called for interviews. Most HR have a minimum criteria of some college degree to shortlist candidates, so your resume might not clear initial screening.