Affirm Feature #1: Selecting Keywords

Post author:CR Johnson
Post published:March 22, 2020
Post category:Projects / Affirm

Part 3 of 5 of the Affirm series

This post covers the planning and design of feature #1 of the mini-project, Affirm. The project uses FDD, an Agile methodology, to produce an app that delivers quotations associated with keywords. See Smartsheets for the basics and LucidChart for details.

Feature #1

“The user can select one or more keywords and submit the request.”

Feature #1’s Plan

After documenting Affirm’s feature #1, I’ll move on to building this feature, incorporating stubs where necessary. Once I have a development version of the app working, I’ll deploy it to this site. Source control will be GitHub.

Affirm Feature #1’s Design

Rails will be used to generate the typical scaffolding for a crud application. A development database of keywords and keywords and references will be used. At this point of development, the resulting verses will be stubbed.

In the next part of this series, I will cover coding feature #1, a development version in a GitHub repository.

Tags: rails, crud, agile, fdd, postgres, api, open source

CR Johnson

As a software engineer with over a decade of experience working for Fortune 50 companies developing software for Windows, the web, and a few interplanetary spacecraft, she's programmed in a plethora of languages including the C#/ASP.NET stack and, recently, Rails. She has tweaked more CSS files than she can count and geeks out a little on data and SQL databases. In her spare time she works on her first novel and enjoys bicycling and dark chocolate.