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What is Ruby on Rails Used for

What is Ruby on Rails Used for?

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What is Ruby on Rails Used for? Ruby on Rails, commonly known as Rails, is a robust web application ...

3 Ways Rails Stays Modern in 2021

August 26, 2021

Code

My, how time flies! Ten years ago I was the cool kid writing in a framework that was at the peak of ...

4 Reasons You Should Still Choose Ruby on Rails

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“Ruby on Rails? That’s soooo 2000’s!” Yet as Mark Twain famously said, “The reports of my death are ...

Object Oriented Parenting

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Lessons in parenting from programming principles (or vice versa) Tell, don’t ask I have been ...

Hand-crafted Root Solver

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When I was little, my mom often made the mistake of asking me to get some ingredient for her out of ...

Get In It - A Guide to Contributing to Open Source Projects

Open Source

I love contributing to free open source software. Throughout my career as a software developer, ...

Life in the Fastlane

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Unlike the Eagles song, the Fastlane automation suite “surely [WON'T] make you lose your mind.” ...

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Start with: What problem are you trying to solve?

One of the activities we work through revolves around refining your problem statement. A problem statement is the key business problem that needs to be solved. In software development, it states “what has to be done” for a project to succeed. It does not say, “how it has to be done.”

We use the 5W’s + 1 H format as well as the SMART Framework when establishing a problem statement. In fact, you can draft your own problem statement by using our free download. This download will get you thinking through some of the questions and answers prior to starting your project.