A ruby helper for making git.io short urls

git_io.gemspec

Gem::Specification.new do |s|
  s.name        = 'git_io'
  s.version     = '1.0.0'
  s.platform    = Gem::Platform::RUBY
  s.author      = 'Aaron Suggs'
  s.email       = 'aaron@ktheory.com'
  s.summary     = 'Shorten urls with git.io'
  s.description = 'GitIo.shorten(url)'
  s.homepage    = 'https://gist.github.com/1762136'

  s.files         = ['git_io.rb']
  s.require_path  = '.'
end

git_io.rb

require 'net/https'
require 'uri'

module GitIo
  BASE_URI = URI.parse("https://git.io/")  

  def self.shorten(url)
    response = Net::HTTP.post_form(BASE_URI, :url => url)
    case response.code
    when "201"
      response['Location']
    else
      raise response.body
    end
  end
end