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Chris Oliver
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.
About This Episode
We're going to build a URL Shortener in Rails, so where do we start? In this lesson, we'll plan out our project and the features we want to build.
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Build a URL Shortener with Rails 7
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URL Shortener Requirements
9m
2
Creating The Link Model
17m
3
Base62 Encoding Short Codes
17m
4
Base62 Decoding Short Codes
12m
5
Find By Short Code
5m
6
Short URL Link Redirects
4m
7
Views Chart for Links
11m
8
Improving the URL Shortener Design
28m
9
Retrieving Link Metadata with Background Jobs
33m
10
Copy Link To Clipboard
13m
11
Deploying URL Shortener To Production with Hatchbox.io
11m