Guppy API

Guppy is a rails api that shortens URL. It exposes two endpoints that allows users to create short version of long links and fetch them.

Requirements

• Ruby 2.7.1
• Rails 6.0.3
• Mongoid 7.0.5 (More info: mongoid docs)
• Redis 4.1.4 (More info: redis )

Before starting

1. Install Redis

 brew install redis

2. Install Mongoid and MongoDB (community edition)

Initial setup

1. Install ruby dependencies

   bundle install
   

2. Start redis in a different tab

   redis-server
   

3. Start rails server in another tab

   rails s
   

4. Server runs on http://localhost:5000.