Shawty

Shawty is the simplest Ruby url-shortening app ever. Run your own server that works like tinyurl.com.

What you need to get this running

Clone this: git clone git://github.com/JackDanger/shawty-server.git
Signup for an account at Heroku (better details here)
push this to Heroku.com: git push heroku master
Revel.

Why?

If you run any application with published content it's helpful to have shorter links to that content.

Consider that your Rails app might offer pages like the following:

http://myapp.com/accounts/megacorp/invoices?single_access_token=5ASD32ADf89JKASF2346

Imagine trying to fit that in a text message. Instead, how about:

http://url.myapp.com/a7D

But that's so hard, right? Nope. (see shawty-client for details):

Shawty.new("http://url.myapp.com/").shrink("http://myapp.com/accounts/megacorp/invoices?single_access_token=5ASD32ADf89JKASF2346")
# => http://url.myapp.com/a7D
## Saved on your url.myapp.com shawty server and usable immediately

Way groovy.

Patches welcome, forks celebrated.