Hello all! Vincent Foley was kind enough to let me start maintaining the ShortURL gem, which means that I was able to fix the support for RubyURL today and release a new gem. $ gem install shorturl This will give you the ShortURL library, which currently supports over 20 URL-shortening services. RubyURL.com is the default service that it works with. require 'rubygems' require 'shorturl' ShortURL.shorten( 'http://planetargon.com' ) ShortURL.shorten( 'http://planetargon.com', :tinyurl ) Additionally, this gem provides a command-line interface, which will allow you to generate short URLs. > shorturl http://rubyforge.org http://rubyurl.com/gtT > shorturl http://rubyforge.org moourl http://moourl.com/huyk6 > shorturl http://rubyforge.org urltea http://urltea.com/2hek For more information, visit the project on RubyForge. * http://rubyforge.org/projects/shorturl/ * http://shorturl.rubyforge.org/ (Documentation) Additionally, if you're using QuickSilver on OSX, here is a way to use RubyURL.com through QuickSilver. * http://rubyurl.com/lSC Cheers, Robby -- Robby Russell http://www.robbyonrails.com # my blog http://www.planetargon.com # my business http://www.programmingrails.com # my book