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date = "2010-10-02"
title = "Firefly 1.1.0 adds QR Codes for your shortened URLs"
tags = ["Ruby", "urls", "firefly", "qrcodes"]
slug = "firefly-110-adds-qr-codes-for-your-shortened-urls"
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<a href="http://aj.gs/2Y.png"><img src="http://aj.gs/2Y.png" width="100" height="100" alt='Example QR Code' title='Example QR Code' /></a>

I just pushed Firefly 1.1.0 [(code)][sources] to [Rubygems][rubygems] containing a very nice new feature: QR Codes.

Why would you care? Well, almost anything can scan QR Codes nowadays. Simple add `.png` to the end of your shortened URL and you'll
get a nice QR Code that you can print or embed on somewhere on the web. Give it a try: [http://aj.gs/2Y.png][qrcode]

Simply scan the image and it will yield your short URL, ready for use.

Updating your current Firefly installation is easy, simply run `gem install firefly -v1.1.0` and restart your server.

[sources]: http://github.com/ariejan/firefly/tree/v1.1.0
[rubygems]: http://rubygems.org/gems/firefly
[qrcode]: http://aj.gs/2Y.png
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