Project 1 - Duly

General Assembly WDI4, December 2014

Overview

Duly is a simple URL shortener that takes a long link and converts it into a shorter URL.

Technologies Used

• Ruby 2.1.2
• Sinatra
• ActiveRecord
• User authentication with Sinatra Simple Authentication gem
• CSS

User stories completed:

• User can sign up
• User can log in
• User can paste a long link into a text box
• User can click a submit button to shorten the link
• User can copy shortened link

Complete list of user stories.

ERD:

ERD

To do:

• Adding Share functions for social media
• Adding a form field that allows users to share the shortened link by email
• Enabling users to save their shortened links into a list and delete them when they're no longer needed