Basic App Setup

• git clone https://github.com/ankita199/shorten.git
• bundle install
• rake db:create
• rake db:migrate
• rails s

Job set up

• whenever --update-crontab --set environment=development
• bundle exec whenever ( you can change 1.month to 1.minute and change any url created_at to (1.month.ago - 1.day) from backend)
• tail -f log/whenever.log ( to view logs )

change environment variable

• EDITOR=pico rails credentials:edit (use any editor)

Purpose

• This kind of app can be used when we want to short our big URLs and those URLs can be send in SMS/email or any can be given as a referer links. While clicking on short URLs it will redirect to original pages.