---
title: "Really? Another Sinatra URL Shortener in Ruby?"
kind: article
slug: really-another-sinatra-url-shortener-in-ruby
created_at: 2010-03-28
tags:
  - Ruby
  - sinatra
  - urls
  - shortening
  - base62
---
With my recent interest in [Sinatra][1] I decided to make some us of it and write a URL shortener service for with it. This also gave me an excuse to polish up my [DataMapper][2] skills a bit.

[1]: http://www.sinatrarb.com/
[2]: http://datamapper.org/
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Now, it's finished! I put the app on [http://github.com/ariejan/firefly][3]. [Feel free to fork][4]!

Not sure if it works? Try this: [http://aj.gs/2][5]

Questions? Please use the comments!

[3]: http://github.com/ariejan/firefly
[4]: http://github.com/ariejan/firefly/fork
[5]: http://aj.gs/2