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Base62 Encoding Short Codes

September 20, 2023

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Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.

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Using Base62, we can take an Integer ID and compress it for short codes in our URLs

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