/shorty

A simple URL-shortener in Rails

Primary LanguageRuby

Shorty, a URL-Shortening Service

Shorty is a simple Rails app that can provide URL-shortening services either through a simple JSON API or through the web app.

Features

The smallest URL-compatible URLs

Shorty works by converting your URLs into a Base-65-encoded number for the smallest possible URL.

URL Toolbar integration

Shorty comes with a link you can drag to your toolbar to provide URL-shortening services from the current page you are currently browsing.

Requirements

Ruby 2.2+ / Rails 5

Deployment

  1. bundle install
  2. rake db:migrate
  3. bin/rails server

Running the test suite

bin/rails test