URL Shortner

The application should be able to put a URL into the home page and get back a urlof the shortest possiblelength. I have used here base 36 numbering system. so This means 1 million records in the database would only require 4 characters (1,000,000 base 10 is ‘lfls’ base 36). And the 200 million records will use only 6 characters .

• Ruby and Rails version

  • Ruby version: 2.2.3
  • Rails version: 4.2.7

• Setting up development

  • Clone the project from github

    git clone https://github.com/sumitdey035/url_shortner.git
    

  • Go to the project folder

    cd url_shortner
    

  • Run bundler

    bundle install
    

  • Setup database

    rake db:setup
    

• Running development env:

  • Start rails server

    rails s
    

• Run specs

  rake db:setup RAILS_ENV=test
  bin/rspec spec