CORTO - your url shortner gem

• Yet another url shortner?

  corto is a ruby gem that shorten a URL for you and store the result in a SQLite3 database.
  Why the world needs another url shortener? Well, true to be told I don't know the answer and I'm 
  pretty sure this code is far away from being revolutionary.
  
  However... corto is funniest!
  

• Usage

  Using corto as standalone utility is straightforward. In case you want to shorten an url you just 
  launch the program with the url as parameter.
  
    % bin/corto http://www.armoredcode.com
    % corto: http://www.armoredcode.com shrunk as ji5jnu
  
  Please note that you've to supply a valid URL, since internally it's parsed and rejected anything but
  HTTP and HTTPS verbs.
  
    % bin/corto funnystatementhere
    % corto: it seems funnystatementhere is not a valid url to shrink
  
  If you want to deflate a shrunk url, you have just to specify the '-d' flag this way.
  
    % bin/corto -d ji5jnu
    % corto: ji5jnu deflated is http://www.armoredcode.com
  
  Super easy, isn't it? Now, go ahead and shrink the web!
  

• API

  A simple corto shortening session start with class initialization, optionally telling which SQLite3 
  database to use and then mastering the parameter.
  
    require 'corto'
  
    ...
    corto = Corto.new # we're now saying the gem we want to use it's internal database stored in db/corto.db
    s = corto.shrink('http://www.armoredcode.com')
  
    # s now stores the shrinked url that is already added to database if not present.
    # If you'll pass an invalid url to shrink(), nil will be returned instead
  
  Deflating a URL is super easy as well
  
    # The deflate process is quite straightforward as well
  
    d = corto.deflate(s)
    # d has now the deflated url or nil if that url was not found
  
  You can also count how many urls contained into db
  
    # If you want to know how many urls you have in your database, just call the count() method.
    puts 'Hey, I have stored ' + corto.count() + ' urls'
  
  And finally you can purge your db
  
    # Tired of your database and time for a massive clean has come? Let's purge the db.
    corto.purge
  
    # corto.count == 0 now
  

• Note on Patches/Pull Requests

  * Fork the project.
  * Make your feature addition or bug fix.
  * Add tests for it. This is important so I don

• Copyright

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