Shawty
The Shawty gem is the simplest and fastest Ruby url-shortening app. Run your own server that works like tinyurl.com or is.gd.
Instant installation and deploy
- Clone this:
git clone git://github.com/JackDanger/shawty-server.git - Signup for an account at Heroku (better details here)
- don't even bother configuring it
- push it to Heroku.com:
git push heroku master - Revel.
Why?
If you run any application with published content it's helpful to have shorter links to that content.
Consider that your Rails app might offer pages like the following:
http://myapp.com/accounts/megacorp/invoices?single_access_token=5ASD32ADf89JKASF2346
Imagine trying to fit that in a text message. Instead, how about:
http://url.myapp.com/a7D
Is it so easy a child can use it?
Yes. See the shawty-client gem for details:
Shawty.new(
"http://url.myapp.com/"
).shrink(
"http://myapp.com/accounts/megacorp/invoices?single_access_token=5ASD32ADf89JKASF2346"
)
# => http://url.myapp.com/a7D
## Saved on your url.myapp.com shawty server and usable immediately
Way groovy.
Patches welcome, forks celebrated.
Copyright (c) 2009 Jack Danger Canty. See LICENSE for details.