Shortinator

Library for creating a short url

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'shortinator'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install shortinator

Configuration

Shortinator.store_url = "mongodb://<url to server>"
Shortinator.host = "http://sho.rt"

Can also be set with SHORTINATOR_STORE_URL and SHORTINATOR_HOST environment variables.

Usage

Shorten a URL and tag it

shortened_url = Shortinator.shorten("http://company.com/a/very/long/url", "daily_update")

Track a click on a url along with some arbitrary params

Shortinator.click(id, { :ip => "123.34.56.67" })

Web Host

This operates with companion project https://github.com/adambird/shortinator-web to provide the redirect

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/adambird/shortinator/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request