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title: "Hot: Firefly 1.3.0 URL Shortener released"
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kind: article
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slug: hot-firefly-130-url-shortener-released
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created_at: 2011-02-01
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tags:
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- firefly
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---
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I've been doing some work on Firefly lately and tonight I've released
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version 1.3.0. If you're using Firefly it's recommended you upgrade to
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the latest and greatest version.
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~
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For those who missed it: Firefly is a simple URL shortener gem
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that can be used to host your own personal (or corporate) URL shortner
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on your own domain. Since Firefly is rack-based, it's easy to deploy to
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Heroku or other ruby hosting providers.
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### What's new
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Since version 1.1.0 (released october 2010) these features have been
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added. I'll just summarize those and ignore the 1.2.x release I made.
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* Make Barby optional to save some gems for those of us who don't need QR code generation. [mboeh]
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* Added a CodeFactory to generate unique short codes (and prevent collisions with custom short codes) [ariejan]
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* Support for specifying one's own preferred short codes via the API. Also, invalid URL creations return a 422 code, not 200. [mboeh]
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* Added GUI support for custom short codes. [ariejan]
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* Improved error handling / reporting [ariejan]
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* Minor tweaks to the web GUI [ariejan]
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* Use dm-mysql-adapater as default, dm-sqlite-adapter is optional [ariejan]
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### How to upgrade
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**IMPORTANT**: Always make a backup of your data before you upgrade.
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Simple install the latest gem version and restart your server.
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gem install firefly -v1.3.0
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Then restart your server. DataMapper will take care of migrating your
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database for you.
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**NOTE**: Firefly is now using MySQL by default. If you were using
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sqlite3 before, please install the appropriate DataMapper adapater: `gem
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install dm-sqlite-adapter`
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### Code, Issues, Forking
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Want to fork? [http://github.com/ariejan/firefly][1]
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[1]: http://github.com/ariejan/firefly
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