ruthienachmany / link-shortener

Welcome to Shorty. Save time, shorten links. Submit a link on the main page. Get back your shortened link.

• I’ve used ngrok (ngrok.com/) here to create an introspected tunnel to my localhost:3000, which exposes it to you (the user).

• You can check out your shortened link at “ 14670d52.ngrok.com/YOUR-SHORTENED-URL-HERE “. You can create your own ngrok localhost tunnel by downlaoding the zip file here: ngrok.com/ and unzipping it like so: “unzip /path/to/ngrok.zip“.

• After that, run “./ngrok 3000“ or whatever port you want to bind to, and check the forwarding address in your terminal to find the tunneled link.

• If there is a problem with the ngrok link I’ve set up on localhost:3000 tunnel, you can set up your own, and update the “app/views/links/show.html.erb“ file accordingly by updating “<a href=“<%=”14670d52.ngrok.com/#{Link.find(params).short_link}“%>” ><%=“14670d52.ngrok.com/#{Link.find(params).short_link}”%> </a> “ with your own ngrok tunnel.

• There is an admin view, which I’ve created using Active Admin. Go to ‘/admin’ and log in with [e-mail] and password to view all links, their shortened URLs, and their visit count.

• I’ve used Flat-UI Twitter Bootstrap as my theme. Thank you to Designmodo for their icons.

• I’ve created the redirect in my routes by using “ match ‘:short_link’ => ‘links#go’ “ in my routes and

“ def go

  @link = Link.find_by_short_link!(params[:short_link])
  redirect_to @link.long_link, :status => @link.http_status
  @link.increment!(:visit_count) 
end
`` 
in my LinksController. This redirects, and increments visit count to that shortened URL.

• I’ve used RSpec for testing.

• Other than that, I think it’s pretty straightforward. Please reach out if you have any questions.