How to organize a tracker for performing daily repetitive tasks (for example, running for 20 days, going to bed before midnight, etc.)?

Question

Ruby on Rails

I decided to write a goal tracker where you need to mark the daily completion of a task (completed / failed / skipped). For example, do not smoke for a certain period. And every day you mark whether you have done or not done. There can be several goals and each has its own period. How to properly organize the storage of data, models from the point of view of the rails way?

Answer 1

I don’t know where the rails are here, I would do this:
1) We have options for describing the frequency, for example:
- once every N hours, starting from such and such a time stamp
- manually specify the periods in the form of their list with start and end dates
- somehow
2 ) We have goals with reference to the types of periodicity from paragraph
1 3) We store marks of completion with reference to the goal.
4) For each type of periodicity from item 1, we have an algorithm that, knowing how the periodicity is set for this type and using the execution marks, can calculate which periods were skipped and which were not.

Answer 2

railscasts.com/episodes/164-cron-in-ruby

Answer 3

Take a notebook, write a task and put a tick.
And don't come up with excuses like "now I'll write a program in Ruby and now I'll definitely run every day" :).