This is a Ruby on Rails plugin that will allow you to pass in a URL, and it will return a shortened URL by calling TinyURL.Installationscript/plugin install http://acts-as-tiny-url.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/acts_as_tiny_urlUsageActsAsTinyURL utilizes TinyURL's API to allow you to pass in any URL and have it generate a shortened URL on the fly.

If you want one of your model's to be able to use ActsAsTinyURL, just add the following line right under the class declaration of one of your controllers.

include ActsAsTinyURLOptionsThe validate_uri option allows you to check, before trying to retrieve a URL, whether or not it is formatted correctly.

Example Usagedef ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
include ActsAsTinyURL
endtiny_url("http://brendanlim.com&quot;)

1. returns http://tinyurl.com/3274fk

tiny_url("http://brendanlim.com&quot;, :validate_uri => true)

1. returns true

tiny_url("http/brendanlim.com", :validate_uri => true)

1. returns falseCopyright (c) 2008 Brendan G. Lim (brendangl@gmail.com), released under the MIT license