[ANN] ShortURL 0.7.0

[Vincent Foley]

After a lot of procrastination, I have released ShortURL 0.7.0. I
added one service (I'm running out of those ), fixed the unit tests
and I started using CVS. As usual, a simple "gem install shorturl"
will do the trick Enjoy!

 

[Vincent Foley]

You know, I am running out of ideas for ShortURL. I admit that it's
not a very complex library, however it seems that lately I only add
services and unit tests. Is there anything you would like to see
added? If not, I have another project I've been thinking about for a
while now that I may start implementing.

 

[Daniel Berger]

You know, I am running out of ideas for ShortURL. I admit that it's
not a very complex library, however it seems that lately I only add
services and unit tests. Is there anything you would like to see
added? If not, I have another project I've been thinking about for a
while now that I may start implementing.

May I recommend a WWW toplevel namespace?

Regards,

Dan

 

[James Edward Gray II]

May I recommend a WWW toplevel namespace?

My thought is that is should include a command-line binary for making
urls as well.

James Edward Gray II

 

[Vincent Foley]

It does. In the bin/ folder, there's a little script called shorten.
You give it an URL and an optional service (it uses RubyURL by default)
and it outputs the shortened URL.

Daniel: what do you mean a WWW namespace? Like sticking the thing in a
WWW module or something? Thanks.

 

[Vincent Foley]

Oops, that shorturl, not shorten. Sorry. It's late and I need to
sleep

 

[Daniel Berger]

It does. In the bin/ folder, there's a little script called shorten.
You give it an URL and an optional service (it uses RubyURL by default)
and it outputs the shortened URL.

Daniel: what do you mean a WWW namespace? Like sticking the thing in a
WWW module or something? Thanks.

Yes.

- Dan

 

[Doug Kearns]

Thanks for this Vincent - very handy.

It does. In the bin/ folder, there's a little script called shorten.
You give it an URL and an optional service (it uses RubyURL by default)
and it outputs the shortened URL.

Maybe you could just polish up the command-line tool?

For example, it might be 'nice' if it had some basic option handling. I
tried it for the first time with $ shorurl --help and it came back with
the shorturl for http://--help/

Also something like $ shorturl --help lns returns "nil" rather than the
wholesome goodness of a more digestible error message...

<snip>

Regards,
Doug

 

[Vincent Foley]

All right, I'll get on it!

 

[James Edward Gray II]

It does. In the bin/ folder, there's a little script called shorten.
You give it an URL and an optional service (it uses RubyURL by
default)
and it outputs the shortened URL.

Oops, didn't know that. Excellent!

James Edward Gray II

 

[Vincent Foley]

I just released ShortURL 0.8.0. It includes an improved bin/shorturl.
This one does more error recovery, has an help system and uses
UNIX-like command line switches. gem update, as usual

 

[Daniel Berger]

I just released ShortURL 0.8.0. It includes an improved bin/shorturl.
This one does more error recovery, has an help system and uses
UNIX-like command line switches. gem update, as usual

Why didn't you add a WWW namespace? With a "class Service" it could,
one day, be problematic.

Regards,

Dan

 

[Vincent Foley]

Oh right, I forgot about that one. Give me a few days, I'll add it.

 

[Vincent Foley]

Done. I thought I'd add a GUI before, but I just made a minor version
release to have the WWW namespace. 0.8.1