Trackie

Trackie my "fisher price" expedition into full stack development. Utilizing MVC architecture in Ruby on Rails.

It's a project tracking application that allows users to create, assign and manage their projects and tasks.

Tasks can be given a due date, priority and status; as well as being assigned to a user to complete. As the individual tasks get completed the progress of their parent project is automatically updated in the UI to reflect the overall progress of the project.

Users can also create and assign themselves with skills to help other users when selecting them for tasks.

Check it out: Trackie

Tech stack:

Ruby on Rails 5.2.6
CSS
JavaScript

How it works

The structure of the project is based around 4 models with a join table to cater for the many to many association between users and skills.

User
- has_many :projects
- has_many :tasks
- has_and_belongs_to_many :skills
Skill
- has_and_belongs_to_many :users
Project
- has_many :tasks
- belongs_to :user
Task
- belongs_to :project
- belongs_to :user, optional: true

I added in nested forms to support

skill creation when creating/editing a user
task creation when creating/editing a project With a little bit of JavaScript I was able to make these nested forms dynamic so multiple of the nested model can be created in one workflow.

I wrote a few methods

to calculate the time left until a project or task is due that returns in a variety of formats depending on how long is left.
to update the status of a task based on if a user is assigned or not. Tasks that have no user are automatically "Unassigned", tasks with a user assigned but no other status selected are set to "Assigned".

I built the UI to be responsive, the layouts of the views was aided by some wireframes.

Wishlist

Make a search function to select users for tasks based on their skills
Add sorting/filtering to the UI so users can reorganise their projects and tasks
Make the UI easier to navigate, maybe another dropdown for new item creation
Tidy up the layout, refactor the .erb and .css files.

Known Bugs

The "Due" calculation doesn't work properly due to issues with timezones...

Thoughts about the project

After just a week learning backend I found this project to be quite challenging. There was a lot of hurdles to overcome to get it done, but overall I am happy with what I achieved in the week.