UrlShortly

A simple Ruby gem for generating short URLs using Base62 encoding.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'url_shortly'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install url_shortly

Generate short URLs using short.ly domain:

require 'url_shortly'

UrlShortly.shorten('https://really-long-url.com/with/lots/of/parameters')
# => "http://short.ly/bK92m"

# Invalid URLs will raise an error
UrlShortly.shorten('not-a-valid-url')
# => raises Shortly::Error, "Invalid URL format"

UrlShortly.shorten('')
# => raises UrlShortly::Error, "URL cannot be empty"

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Inzmam/shortly.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.