ShortURL 0.8.4

Summary

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

ShortURL is available as a gem, installation is just like any other gem: $ gem install 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", :moourl)

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)

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