RubyConf 2016 - Grow Your Team In 90 Days by Cheryl Gore Schaefer So you want to work with an awesome ruby developer? Great! But finding one is hard. It’s much easier to hire that apprentice or bootcamp grad, but that person is not an awesome developer. How do you help them get there? You will learn how to build a learning plan and become the best mentor to a budding software developer. You have the opportunity to mold your apprentice’s skill set into exactly what you need, while benefiting from their diverse skills and experiences. We will build an example learning plan of a developer learning Ruby, showing clear and specific choices and likely outcomes.