yovasx2 / url-shortener

A basic url shortener like bit.ly made with rails

URL shortener

Content

• Description

• Installation

• Requirements

• Run project

• Contribute

• Author

• License

Description

This project is used to short and enlarge URLs, this is very basic so collisions are not avoided, Problem is specified in PROBLEM.html

Installation

Just execute in console

$ bundle install

Requirements

In order to execute this project you need to install:

• Ruby 2.2.3

  You can check this with ruby -v

• Rails 4.2.6

  You can check this with rails -v

Run project

1. Clone the repo

   $ git clone https://github.com/yovasx2/url-shortener
   

2. Move into it and install dependencies

   $ cd url-shortener
   

3. Execute

   $ rails server
   

Two routes are available:

• Short URL:

  http://localhost:3000/shorten?url=https://example.com

• Enlarge URL (automatic redirection to URL):

  http://localhost:3000/d5c49f

Contribute

You can contribute to this project in many forms:

• Reporting bugs

• Writing issues

• Features

Author

1. Giovanni Alberto García

   • [e-mail]

   • github.com/yovasx2

License

MIT License