As someone trying to hire Rails devs right now, I have two things to say - one good, one bad.

* The Good News: I started coding 18 months ago, and now I'm a lead developer at a funded startup and a two-time contributor to Rails (along with other contributions to open source).

* The Bad News: While there is a hiring drought, there is NOT a drought for hiring guys who just learned Rails three-to-six-months ago at a dev bootcamp somewhere. We get literally dozens of cold emails a week from people like this. The amount they can contribute is almost nothing and 95% aren't capable of holding down a FT junior position.

I think my point is don't think that you'll go to some bootcamp at have a job for 90k with benefits in 6 months. You need to work your ass off to be employable in that amount of time, although it's possible.