User can shorten links.

[rudzainy]

• Signed in users can:
  • create a short link
  • from link shortener index
  • from links index
  • view all shortened links in a table with basic statistics in short link index
• Anonymous user can:
  • create a short link from public page
  • view basic statistics on shortened links with special link

[hewrin]

Should I copy how bitly does it?

[hewrin]

Would these shortened links be a separate ActiveRecord model from the link model in Ranting currently?

[rudzainy]

Would these shortened links be a separate ActiveRecord model from the link model in Ranting currently?

Dayum that's a good question. Comparing them:

A: link have many short_links

• When signed in users create a new link, and create a short_link from that new link, the short_link will reference the link's url as it's long_url.

• When anonymous user creates a short_link from a custom long_url, well nothing else needs to be done here...

B: link has a short_link column

• When anonymous user creates a short_link from a custom long_url, a new link will be created with no user associated, or assigned to an anonymous or an admin or a system user account.
• Index pages for link and short_link will call from the same AR model and filtered accordingly.

I think it should not be separated if we want to keep things simple🤔

I also think there's much more we can explore with short link IN THE FUTURE 😂

[rudzainy]

Should I copy how bitly does it?

Just a simple one like sini.la (which uses https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS) 😬

[hewrin]

Would these shortened links be a separate ActiveRecord model from the link model in Ranting currently?

Dayum that's a good question. Comparing them:

A: link have many short_links

• When signed in users create a new link, and create a short_link from that new link, the short_link will reference the link's url as it's long_url.
• When anonymous user creates a short_link from a custom long_url, well nothing else needs to be done here...

B: link has a short_link column

• When anonymous user creates a short_link from a custom long_url, a new link will be created with no user associated, or assigned to an anonymous or an admin or a system user account.
• Index pages for link and short_link will call from the same AR model and filtered accordingly.

I think it should not be separated if we want to keep things simple🤔

I also think there's much more we can explore with short link IN THE FUTURE 😂

I think we should go with link has_many short_links, Seems a bit more flexible for things we can explore IN THE FUTURE.

But then for anonymous_users, everytime they create a short_link it creates a new_link right?

[hewrin]

Should I copy how bitly does it?

Just a simple one like sini.la (which uses https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS) 😬

Actually for existing links, shouldn't it just be a button? Then we will create a short_link associated with it?

[rudzainy]

But then for anonymous_users, everytime they create a short_link it creates a new_link right?

Yes. This is one drawback i don't prefer. Do u think it will add too many unnecessary complexity?

An alternative is to add a column in short_url called something like long_url...

[hewrin]

Yes. This is one drawback i don't prefer. Do u think it will add too many unnecessary complexity?

I think if its going to be one off links it should be fine. Each anonymous user short link will need their own special link anyway if they want to view basic statistics

[hewrin]

TODO

• Create ShortLink model link has_many short_link belongs_to link

Link model

• belongs_to user :optional

• Create page for short_link

  • unauthenticated so anonymous users can go to it.

• Track usage

  • use Impressionist gem

TO DON'T

• Procrastinate
• Copy codebase and create own app
• Eat during the day (during Ramadan).

[hewrin]

Update on ShortLink model

    create_table :short_links do |t|
      t.references :links <-- original url lives here
      t.string :statistics_token <--- token to take user to the statistics page
      t.string :url_token <--- token to add on to our shortener domain eg. suri.li/:url_token
      t.timestamps
    end

[hewrin]

• short_links/new can only be accessed by non-authenticated users.
  • the url for the short_url is just www.ranting.my/s/token for now
  • redirect back to new page, @rudzainy will stimulate the hotwire on the page.
• authenticated users will create links from links#index from create short link button.

[rudzainy]

User flow

https://www.figma.com/file/HT9fjCTYdeqN9XvnIPbnwZ/Untitled?type=whiteboard&node-id=0%3A1&t=0g7Ap2b5Ya9tYoDf-1

[hewrin]

@rudzainy Can close?

[rudzainy]

Will close after i'm done with the UI 🥶

[rudzainy]

@hewrin seems like all short links has a = at the end. do you know why? 🤔

[rudzainy]

Done with #88