kaynanguarany / backend-project

BACKEND PROJECT

Backend project using Ruby On Rails + PostgreSQL

SETUP

Build

To build the project, run the command:

docker-compose build

this will build the necessary containers for the Application and Database

Serve the App

To bring the Rails App up, run the command:

docker-compose up

You should be able to access the app through the URL http://localhost:4000.

Create Database

To create and set up the database, just run the following command:

docker-compose run web rake db:create db:setup

this will create both development database and test database

Run specs

To run the application specs, run the commaand:

docker-compose run web rake

ALGORITHM EXPLANATION

To short urls the project uses a conversion from base10 to base62, using the ID generated by database to create the url_code. It's is a simple algorithm and could be seen inside app/services/url_shortener.rb, and tested in spec/services/url_shortener_spec.rb.

Deploy

The app is hosted on AWS Beanstalk, working inside a Ruby2.7.1 enviroment

App link: http://shortenedurlapi-env.eba-hmyteghu.sa-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/