sxua / shortener-rb

URL Shortener based on Sinatra + Redis

URL shortener based on Sinatra + Redis

This is an example of URL shortener service in Ruby.

Dependencies

• Redis 1.2+ (if you have and older version you need to comment out this lines):

require "hiredis" # speeds up the redis, works only with Redis 1.2+
require "redis/connection/hiredis" # defining Hiredis backend for redis-rb

• Ruby with this gems:

bundle install

Running

Just exec rackup and point your browser to http://localhost:9292/ for shortener form.

JSON

If you want to get response as JSON, add require 'json' at the top of shortener.rb and

post "/u" do
  content_type :json
  {url_or_whatever: put_url(params[:url])}
end

instead of similar block at the bottom.