August 12, 2007
RubyURL: Keep it Short (and Sweet)
I’m a few days late announcing this, but Wednesday, Robby launched the new version of RubyURL, the first rails application running on Planet Argon’s new hosting platform, Boxcar.
Robby did all the development work for RubyURL, and I was in charge of the visual design & XHTML/CSS. Not to be too self-indulgent, but this has to be the sexiest URL “shortner” on the web right now. Not too bold of a statement when you take a look around the web (if only sexy accounted for something :) ).
If you find any bugs, feedback or feature requests, feel free to post them here.
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Nice clean design. I like the looks of this much better than tinyURL. Since it offers the same exact service, I lean towards using RubyURL for my domain shortening needs. Cheers.
Original URL Length: 21 characters RubyURL Length: 22 characters shortened by: -1 characters
:)
Meh. I know :)
We’ve discussed this problem, and we have an idea on how we want to address it.
In the meantime, you can report it as a bug here:
http://planetargon.lighthouseapp.com/projects/4059-rubyurl/overview