We can retrieve the title, description, and OpenGraph metadata for URLs. Since HTTP requests can be slow, we'll implement this metadata lookup in a background job and broadcast to the frontend with Turbo.

It's time we start cleaning up the design and UI for a better experience with our URL shortener.

Analytics for links is a useful feature so lets record Views for links and show them in a graph

Next, we can build redirecting Short URLs to the URL on the Link

Now that we have Base62 encoding and decoding, we can tell Rails to use this for generating URL params and find

Decoding our Base62 encoded short codes is the next challenge

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

First things first, we need a Link model to store our

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.

Rails 7.1 introduces many new features for authentication. In this lesson, we'll show you how to implement authentication from scratch using Rails 7.1's new features.