An application developed in Ruby. It accomplishes URL shortening and redirection from shortened URLs. With shortest possible length.

This template currently works with:

• Ruby 2.6.0
• Rails 5.2.3
• Sidekiq
• PostgreSQL

Project details

1. Strategy:
   1. Take the ID in the database of the URL and then convert it to either Base 36 [a-z0-9] (case insensitive) to generate shortened URL;
   2. I used ActiveJob to perform the title search in the background;
   3. I used gem Faker to populate the database for the Top 100 board;
   4. Performed Model, Request and Acceptance tests.
2. Repository: https://github.com/luiseugenio/shortenerofluis
3. Production server on Heroku:
   1. Host: https://vast-thicket-11159.herokuapp.com/
   2. Configuration File: Procfile

To execute in development mode:

rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed
rspec spec
cucumber
rails s

To promote in production mode:

git push heroku master

• The database supported by this app is postgresql.

The app will perform this actions:

1. Index

get https://vast-thicket-11159.herokuapp.com/

2. Generate Short URLs

get https://vast-thicket-11159.herokuapp.com/short_urls/new

3. Un-Short Shortened URLs

get https://vast-thicket-11159.herokuapp.com/:shortened_url

4. Show TOP 100 most visit links

https://vast-thicket-11159.herokuapp.com/short_urls/top_100

• Utilities
  • sidekiq – Redis-based job queue implementation for Active Job
  • faker – A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
  • bootstrap – Build responsive, mobile-first projects on the web with the world's most popular front-end component library
  • mechanize – Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy
• Testing
  • capybara – Acceptance test framework for web applications
  • database_cleaner – Strategies for cleaning databases in Ruby.
  • cucumber-rails – Rails Generators for Cucumber with special support for Capybara and DatabaseCleaner
  • factory_bot_rails – is a fixtures replacement with a straightforward definition syntax, support for multiple build strategies
  • shoulda-matchers – Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality