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+++ date = "2010-06-06" title = "Firefly 0.4.3 and Firefly Client 0.4.0 released" tags = ["Ruby", "gems", "urls", "firefly", "shortener"] slug = "firefly-043-and-firefly-client-040-released" +++ Today version 0.4.3 of Firefly was released with some minor updates. To complete the package, a new gem firefly-client has been released.
The client library allows your Ruby application to easily shorten URLs with a remote Firefly server. It's very easy to use and lightweight.
Firefly 0.4.3 Changelog
- Handle invalid API keys correctly.
- Added a fix for MySQL users to update the
code
column to use the correct collation. Fixes issue #9
Firefly Client
Using the Firefly Client is very easy, read the following snippet from the README:
require 'rubygems'
require 'firefly-client'
firefly = Firefly::Client.new("http://aj.gs", "my_api_key")
firefly.shorten("http://google.com")
=> "http://aj.gs/8ds"
Nice, huh? Get more info over at github