boddhisattva / url_shortener

A sample URL shortener app

README

This is a basic URL Shortener app. This app also exposes an API to create a URL Shortener.

• Ruby and Rails versions used are specified in the Gemfile

• To run the application

  • bundle install from project root directory
  • Uses PostgreSQL as a default DB.
  • rake db:create & rake db:migrate
  • rails s to kick start the application
  • The accepted valid URI corresponds to the regex provided by standard URI library

• Tests

  • Specs for controllers(for the web app and the API), models and helpers have been added
  • Integration specs are present in spec/requests
  • One can run the entire test suite with the rspec spec command