Link shortener

Hi there, this is my link shortner project. I have done a short writeup for this project, you can check it out here.

To setup the project on your own machine follow the steps below

Prerequisites

The setups steps expect following tools installed on the system.

• Git
• Ruby 2.6.1
• Rails 6.0.3

1. Check out the repository

git clone git@github.com:conorbr/url_shortener.git

2. Create and setup the database

Run the following commands to create and setup the database.

bundle exec rake db:create
bundle exec rake db:setup

3. Start the Rails server

You can start the rails server using the command given below.

bundle exec rails s

And now you can make requests to the the site with the URL http://localhost:3000