This Rails app is an implementation of a bit.ly like url shortener.

Shortened urls are generated using a base62 token strategy, trying to avoid collisions and also reducing the database size. Tokens have 8 characters, which gives us 62^8 possible tokens.

• Ruby 2.7.1
• Rails 6.1.4
• Postgres 12.7

Building api image:

  docker-compose build

Setting the database up:

  docker-compose run api rake db:create
  docker-compose run api rake db:migrate

Running the app:

  docker-compose up

Running the specs:

  docker-compose run api rspec