Petit

simple, fast, rack-based url routing server. Links are stored in a yaml file

Highlights

• Your own url-shortner in minutes
• Links are precached, extremly fast routing
• Rack-based -> Deploy with heroku in minutes
• No Database setup/maintenance

Getting Started

Install the Gem

gem install petit

Initialize in the app directory

This will create links.yml in the current directory

petit init

Add your links to links.yml

Links are in simple YAML format

foo: http://bar.com   # => will redirect http://yourdomain/foo to http://bar.com

Deploy

A config.ru will be generated during the initialization, or simply place this in your rackup file

require 'petit'
run Petit::Router.builder

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Copyright (c) 2011 Greg Osuri

This is Free Software distributed under the terms of the MIT license. See the file COPYING for information of licensing and distribution.