Module: Vurlify

Defined in:
lib/vurlify.rb

Constant Summary collapse

VERSION = 
'0.1.1'
VURL_HOST = 
"http://vurl.me/"
VURL_PATH = 
"vurls"
VURL_POST_PATH = 
VURL_HOST + VURL_PATH

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#shorten(url) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/vurlify.rb', line 15

def shorten(url)
  begin
    Timeout::timeout(5) do
      response = Crack::XML.parse RestClient.post(VURL_POST_PATH, :vurl => {:url => url})
      "#{VURL_HOST}#{response['vurl']['slug']}"
    end
  rescue
    url
  end
end