ShortURL 0.8.0

Summary

ShortURL is a very simple library to use URL shortening services such as TinyURL or RubyURL.

ShortURL is available as a gem, installation is just like any other gem: $ gem install -r shorturl

You can also download the tar.bz2 archive at rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=732 if you do not want to use the gem.

Here is the list of the services supported by ShortURL:

call-seq:

  require "shorturl"
  puts ShortURL.shorten("http://mypage.com")
  puts ShortURL.shorten("http://mypage.com", :tinyurl)

The second parameter represents the service you want to use. These are:

You can use ShortURL.valid_services to obtain a list of the valid services (in case I forget to update the documentation)

You can also use the small script in bin/ which can be used from the command line: call-seq:

  $ shorturl www.google.com
  http://rubyurl.com/fuuUw
  $ shorturl -s tinyurl www.google.com
  http://tinyurl.com/1c2
  $

Marcel Molina Jr., Devin Mullins for some ideas
imperator from ruby-lang (I don’t know your real name, sorry) for helping me with creating and uploading a RubyGem
Daniel Dipaolo for telling me about ln-s.net and fyad.org

Vincent Foley