# \[ANN\] abetaday.com - share website screenshots instead of difficult to remember urls

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-abetaday-com-share-website-screenshots-instead-of-difficult-to-remember-urls/176966>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 9, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-abetaday-com-share-website-screenshots-instead-of-difficult-to-remember-urls/176966 "2009-10-09T03:46:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![gremio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gremio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gremio)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-abetaday-com-share-website-screenshots-instead-of-difficult-to-remember-urls/176966/1 "2009-10-09T03:46:48Z")

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I’d like to share my latest project completed using Ruby on Rails:

[http://www.abetaday.com](http://www.abetaday.com)

This application generates screenshots of web pages that you post,  
allows  
you to share them with your friends, and allows you to see what others  
are  
viewing online. The site is a result of a problem I had remembering  
arcane  
(non-restful) urls after receiving them in emails without any  
descriptions.  
I noticed that I could easily remember and find them when I could see  
the  
end destination of the link (the web page itself). I hope this solution  
may  
help some of you as well.

Features Of Note:

- On the fly creation of a screenshot from a link that you post.  
Background processes make sure that you do not wait around until the  
image  
has been created.
- Share the screenshot from the site via e-mail, twitter, facebook, and  
others.
- Use the embed code to place thumbnails of the screenshots directly  
into  
your blog or website.
- Automatic generation of bit.ly urls using bit.ly’s API and background  
processes.
- Option to follow other users to see the links they post.

I hope this application will be of interest to some of you and that you  
will  
consider joining, posting, and embedding. Also, any feedback would be  
very  
much appreciated.

Lastly, thanks to everyone who works very hard to make Ruby On Rails  
available to people like me.

Cheers,  
Greg