Gournay is a URL shrinker written in Go.

Try it

http://gournay.herokuapp.com/

building locally

go build gournay.go

When pushing to heroku, the app is compiled. When adding new dependencies, remember to run godep save.

running in development

# psql
create database gournay_development;
create table entries (
  url varchar(255),
  hash varchar(5)
);

Local postgres connection string like this, for a database called gournay_development:

export DATABASE_URL="user=andy host=localhost dbname=gournay_development sslmode=disable"

./gournay
# port is 5000 by default

Heroku

Details on using the Heroku buildpack.

• Create a heroku instance with the custom buildpack
• Enable the postgres addon with: heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql
• Heroku binds to a random port, can't hard-code the port. details
• connect to heroku psql and set up database: heroku pg:psql. Find out database name from connection string, and create the tables.

resources

• go import path
• http://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/
• http://mmcgrana.github.io/2012/09/getting-started-with-go-on-heroku.html
• http://blog.zmxv.com/2011/09/go-template-examples.html
• https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/SQLInterface
• https://github.com/mindreframer/golang-stuff/tree/master/github.com/VividCortex/go-database-sql-tutorial