URL Shortener

This is a simple rails app to shorten long URLs to reasonably short links using ruby 2.6.3 with Rails 6.0.2.1 and mySQL database and tested using rspec-rails.

Installation and running

First, you will need to install the required ruby and rails versions and have mySQL server installed on your machine. Second, you will need to clone the project, go to the project directory and run the command bundle. Third, you need to export your database user name and password as environment variables as follows:

export DATABASE_USERNAME=yourDatabaseUsername
export DATABASE_PASSWORD=yourDatabasePassword

then run the command rails db:setup. Last, run rails s to get the server up and running.

Testing

To run the test cases, just run the command rspec in the project directory to execute all the test cases!