This is a Ruby on Rails plugin that will allow you to pass in a URL, and it will return a shortened URL by calling TinyURL.
Installation
script/plugin install http://acts-as-tiny-url.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/acts_as_tiny_url
Usage
ActsAsTinyURL utilizes TinyURL's API to allow you to pass in any URL and have it generate a shortened URL on the fly.
If you want one of your model's to be able to use ActsAsTinyURL, just add the following line right under the class declaration of one of your controllers.
include ActsAsTinyURL
Options
The validate_uri option allows you to check, before trying to retrieve a URL, whether or not it is formatted correctly.
Example Usage
def ApplicationController < ActionController::Base include ActsAsTinyURL end
tiny_url("http://brendanlim.com")
# returns http://tinyurl.com/3274fk
tiny_url("http://brendanlim.com", :validate_uri => true)
# returns true
tiny_url("http/brendanlim.com", :validate_uri => true)
# returns falseCopyright (c) 2008 Brendan G. Lim (brendangl@gmail.com), released under the MIT license
