URL Shortener

Small Rails project that given a url it returns a shorter version that redirects to the original one.

Deployed at https://shrt-gf.herokuapp.com/

Prerequisites

• Ruby: 2.7.0
• PostgreSQL

Install

Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:lsarni/url-shortener.git
cd shortener

Install dependencies

Using Bundler:

bundle install

Set environment variables

Create a copy of .env.exampl and rename it to .env.

Fill out any missing fields with the correct information.

Initialize the database

rails db:create db:migrate

Serve

rails s

Test

rspec -fd