Shortener

Shortener makes it easy to create shortened URLs for your rails application.

Shortener is a Rails Engine Gem that makes it easy to create and interpret shortened URLs on your own domain from within your Rails application. Once installed Shortener will generate, store URLS and "unshorten" shortened URLs for your applications visitors, all whilst collecting basic usage metrics.

What you get

• a model for storing the details of the shortened link;
• a controller to accept incoming requests and redirecting them to the target URL;
• a helper for generating shortened URLs from controllers and views.

Installing it

# Gemfile
gem "shortener"

Details

548 stars on GitHub · MIT licensed · maintained by jpmcgrath. Source: https://github.com/jpmcgrath/shortener