MUSh

A multiple service URL shortener gem with command-line utilities

NOTE: This gem only supports url shortening, nothing else, no stats, no info, no expand and it won’t support any of them.

Supported services

  • bit.ly

  • is.gd

  • u.nu

Usage as a command line utility

$ bitly -l login -l apikey -u http://foo.raflabs.com

$ isgd http://foo.raflabs.com

$ unu foo.raflabs.com

Sorry, but at this moment, if you want to use the bitly command line without -l and -k do this:

Add the following alias to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc

alias bitly='bitly -l your_login -k your_apikey'

then use it this way (you won’t need the -u)

$ bitly http://google.com

Usage as a Gem

require 'mush'

bitly = Mush::Services::Bitly.new

bitly. = "login"
bitly.apikey = "apikey"

bitly.shorten "http://foo.raflabs.com"

isgd = Mush::Services::IsGd.new
isgd.shorten "http://foo.raflabs.com"


unu = Mush::Services:Unu.new
unu.shorten "http://foo.raflabs.com"

ToDo

  • Use bitly commmand without -l and -k, save config in home folder (.mush file)

  • Make shorten method to accept multiple URLs

  • add j.mp and maybe other services

  • Cache

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

  • Fork the project.

  • Make your feature/service addition or bug fix.

  • Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

  • Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

  • Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright © 2010 Rafael Magana. See LICENSE for details.