Rus : a Rust URL Shortener

The project structure is largely inspired from the sea orm actix example

Notable libs used :

• Actix for the web server
• Sea ORM to handle the database queries

Use with docker

To start rus with docker :

# This might take a while to build all the dependencies
docker build -t rus .
docker run --restart unless-stopped --env RUS_HOST=0.0.0.0 --env RUS_PORT=8000 --env RUS_DATABASE_URL="postgresql://<user>:<password>@127.0.0.1/<databasename>"  -p "8000:8000" rus 

Then go with a web browser to the address localhost:8000 to see if everything's going well.

TODO

• Add Docker support
• Add Github pipeline
• Validate url passed into parameters
• Handle in-memory caching of data
• Handle caching of data via redis
• Return 404 when the url doesn't exit
• Save Ip address of user creating the url
• Update last access date when the link is clicked
• Use the correct logging system
• Handle link expiring: delete from database, and cache
• Use Elm as a frontend framework
• Improve overall style