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Firefly 0.4.3 and Firefly Client 0.4.0 released

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06 June 2010
Tagged ruby, gems, urls, firefly, shortener

Today version 0.4.3 of Firefly was released with some minor updates. To complete the package, a new gem firefly-client has been released.

The client library allows your Ruby application to easily shorten URLs with a remote Firefly server. It's very easy to use and lightweight.

Firefly 0.4.3 Changelog

  • Handle invalid API keys correctly.
  • Added a fix for MySQL users to update the code column to use the correct collation. Fixes issue #9

Firefly Client

Using the Firefly Client is very easy, read the following snippet from the README:

require 'rubygems'
require 'firefly-client'

firefly = Firefly::Client.new("http://aj.gs", "my_api_key")
firefly.shorten("http://google.com") 
  => "http://aj.gs/8ds"

Nice, huh? Get more info over at github