Url Shortening

Url Shortening is a simple Rails gem that shortens URL

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'url_shortening'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install url_shortening

After you install Url Shortening run the generator

$ rails generate url_shortening

Usage

To generate a Short URL object for the URL “example.com/long/path” do the following:

UrlShortening::Url.get_long_url('example.com/long/path')

To get the original URL of your short URL "example.com/123" do the following:

UrlShortening::Url.get_short_url('example.com/123')

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Future improvements:

Use MD5 hashing function to generate shortened URLs.
Add Caching layer.

License