# ShortURL 0.8.4 released **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 7, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shorturl-0-8-4-released/125219 "2008-01-07T06:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robby247365](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@robby247365](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robby247365)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shorturl-0-8-4-released/125219/1 "2008-01-07T06:09:39Z")
Hello all! Vincent F. was kind enough to let me start maintaining the ShortURL gem, which means that I was able to fix the support for RubyURL today and release a new gem. $ gem install shorturl This will give you the ShortURL library, which currently supports over 20 URL-shortening services. [RubyURL.com](http://RubyURL.com) is the default service that it works with. require ‘rubygems’ require ‘shorturl’ ShortURL.shorten( ‘[http://planetargon.com](http://planetargon.com)’ ) ShortURL.shorten( ‘[http://planetargon.com](http://planetargon.com)’, :tinyurl ) Additionally, this gem provides a command-line interface, which will allow you to generate short URLs. > shorturl [http://rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) [http://rubyurl.com/gtT](http://rubyurl.com/gtT) > shorturl [http://rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) moourl ``` http://moourl.com/huyk6 ``` > shorturl [http://rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) urltea [http://urltea.com/2hek](http://urltea.com/2hek) For more information, visit the project on RubyForge. - [http://rubyforge.org/projects/shorturl/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/shorturl/) - [http://shorturl.rubyforge.org/](http://shorturl.rubyforge.org/) (Documentation) Additionally, if you’re using QuickSilver on OSX, here is a way to use [RubyURL.com](http://RubyURL.com) through QuickSilver. - [http://rubyurl.com/lSC](http://rubyurl.com/lSC) Cheers, Robby