ariejan / firefly

Welcome to Firefly 2.0

Firefly 2.0 is an excellent URL shortener service that scales.

firefly's Issues

Optimize for easy deployment

It should be super easy to deploy Firefly, a bare VPS and Heroku are two prime platforms to support IMHO.

URLs Posted with Spaces in them (%20) error out

Fixed in:

http://github.com/benr75/firefly/tree/fix_spaces_issue

Pagination of items

This is a beginner friendly issue which means that it should be a nice first task if you're looking to learn Ruby or Hanami. Feel free to ask questions in the comments or hop over to gitter to chat with the maintainer and others. And remember to have fun!

The current /admin only shows the 10 most recent items. This issue asks to add pagination of some sort, so you can navigate further back in history.

Allow special characters in short code: + $ @ etc.

I’d like to be able to create a short link to my Google+ profile like so: agarzo.la/+

Any chance something like this could be implemented? Thanks!

Sort shortened URLs

Default sorting: created_at DESC
Possible: clicks ASC, clicks DESC, created_at AS

255 Characters for URLs is too short

255 characters for the long URL is too short. A good alternative would be to use a length of 2048 characters.

Social share options for admin

This is a beginner friendly issue which means that it should be a nice first task if you're looking to learn Ruby or Hanami. Feel free to ask questions in the comments or hop over to gitter to chat with the maintainer and others. And remember to have fun!

The admin should, for each item, be able to share that link on social media. I guess 'public' sharing schemes will work, so these are basically links to twitter, facebook, etc. to share something.

Logo / Mascot

You know it!

Feel free to discuss here.

RuntimeError - downstream app not set

2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.1.2/lib/sinatra/base.rb:607:in forward' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: RuntimeError - downstream app not set: 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.1.2/lib/sinatra/base.rb:689:inroute_missing'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.1.2/lib/sinatra/base.rb:638:in route!' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.1.2/lib/sinatra/base.rb:634:inroute!'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.1.2/lib/sinatra/base.rb:553:in block in call!' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.1.2/lib/sinatra/base.rb:760:indispatch!'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.1.2/lib/sinatra/base.rb:725:in instance_eval' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.1.2/lib/sinatra/base.rb:725:inblock in invoke'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.1.2/lib/sinatra/base.rb:725:in catch' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.1.2/lib/sinatra/base.rb:725:ininvoke'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.1.2/lib/sinatra/base.rb:553:in call!' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.1.2/lib/sinatra/base.rb:538:incall'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/session/cookie.rb:37:in call' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /home/heroku_rack/lib/static_assets.rb:9:incall'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /home/heroku_rack/lib/last_access.rb:15:in call' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:41:ineach'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:47:in block in call' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:41:incall'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /home/heroku_rack/lib/date_header.rb:14:in call' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:77:incall'

4-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thin-1.2.6/lib/thin/connection.rb:76:in block in pre_process' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thin-1.2.6/lib/thin/connection.rb:74:incatch'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thin-1.2.6/lib/thin/connection.rb:74:in pre_process' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thin-1.2.6/lib/thin/connection.rb:57:inprocess'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thin-1.2.6/lib/thin/connection.rb:42:in receive_data' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/eventmachine-0.12.10/lib/eventmachine.rb:256:inrun'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/eventmachine-0.12.10/lib/eventmachine.rb:256:in run_machine' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thin-1.2.6/lib/thin/backends/base.rb:57:instart'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thin-1.2.6/lib/thin/server.rb:156:in start' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thin-1.2.6/lib/thin/runner.rb:177:inrun_command'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thin-1.2.6/lib/thin/controllers/controller.rb:80:in start' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thin-1.2.6/lib/thin/runner.rb:143:inrun!'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thin-1.2.6/bin/thin:6:in <top (required)>' 2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/bin/thin:19:inload'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/ruby1.9.2/bin/thin:19:in `

'
2012-04-13T16:13:24+00:00 heroku[router]: GET foo-bar-9571.heroku.com//4 dyno=web.1 queue=0 wait=0ms service=11ms status=500 bytes=30

I've got a really basic installation set up as per the instructions at: http://ariejan.net/2010/06/06/setup-your-own-firefly-url-shortener-in-25-minutes and when I attempt to un-shorten the link this is what I see in my heroku logs. I'm also seeing that all my URLs are basically just foo.com//1 in sequential order

Add a Client-gem to short URLs with a remote Firefly instance.

Add a Client-gem to short URLs with a remote Firefly instance..

Retrieve link HTML title

When shortening an URL, Firefly should try to retrieve the remote HTML page and extract the title for display in the admin panel.

Some symbols don't work in API key

I set up Firefly on Heroku with an API key that included the characters # and @. When I tried to log in using that key, it failed silently (just dumping me back to the login page with no error). When I changed the API key to something with no symbols (letters and numbers only) it worked fine.

CSV export with X urls overloads server

When running on a server with 16k shortened URLs, generating the CSV takes a long time and increases the load dramatically.

Sharing a link to facebook without a title gives exception

When sharing a link to facebook (which does not require/support a title), without posting a title, an exception is thrown.

NoMethodError - private method `gsub' called for nil:NilClass:
 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:320:in `unescape'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/firefly-1.5.1/lib/firefly/server.rb:207:in `GET /api/share'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1164:in `call'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1164:in `compile!'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:738:in `instance_eval'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:738:in `route_eval'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:722:in `route!'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:772:in `process_route'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:769:in `catch'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:769:in `process_route'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:721:in `route!'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:720:in `each'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:720:in `route!'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:857:in `dispatch!'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:648:in `call!'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:822:in `instance_eval'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:822:in `invoke'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:822:in `catch'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:822:in `invoke'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:648:in `call!'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.2.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:633:in `call'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/session/cookie.rb:37:in `call'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/request_handler.rb:92:in `process_request'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_request_handler.rb:207:in `main_loop'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:118:in `run'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:65:in `spawn_application'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:184:in `safe_fork'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:58:in `spawn_application'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:41:in `spawn_application'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:159:in `spawn_application'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:287:in `handle_spawn_application'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:352:in `__send__'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:352:in `main_loop'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:196:in `start_synchronously'
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.11/bin/passenger-spawn-server:61

Generate QR code images for short URLs

As in Firefly 1.x, add an action for each item so you can download a QR code that contains the short URL.

Use 301 redirects instead of 302

This is better for SEO stuff.

Allow multiple URLs per short link

Allow multiple URLs per short link, resulting in a landing page on Firefly with links to each URL.

Optimize for large datasets

Some instances of Firefly contain already 800k or more URLs, this may require some optimization. Find out what and how.

Hosting of images

When shortening an URL to an image, Firefly should automatically re-host this image. Additionally it should be possible to upload an image file as well.

Keep in mind that Firefly should be Cloud Ready, so simple file storage will not be sufficient.

Twitter integration

After shortening a URL two things can happen:

• Auto tweet the URL according to settings in config.ru
• Give the user the option to tweet the URL by redirecting to Twitter.com

Filter/Search URLs

It should be possible to search the URLs, both short and long URLs are taken into account when filtering.

Add export feature

Export shortened URLs, including stats to CSV or YAML.

Bundle the app up in a Gem

Gem includes

• Sinatra app, easily startable through a rack-up file
• Command line command to shorten URL's quickly.

Move configuration to /admin

Configuration is now done in an .env file, common configuration settings for the user could be moved to /admin for easier access.

Multi-user support

Support proper users with their own API key. This should allow for 'personal' urls.

E.g. shortening http://example.com by user one should have a different code than for user two. However, it should be possible to aggregate click stats for your self and all users combined.

Setting up 2.0 on Heroku?

I got a working install on my local machine, but was unable to do the same on heroku.

The only changes I've made:
change hostname in firefly.yml to rxlcc.herokuapp.com
comment out other dbs in Gemfile, only pg uncommented

my repo at: https://github.com/hayksaakian/rxlcc
github changelog: hayksaakian/rxlcc@d2e2f92

i'm guessing it's because there are no connections to the production db, but i'm unsure where i would add them

2012-12-31T05:36:20+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Starting process with command `bundle exec rackup config.ru -p 36424`
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/syck.rb:135:in `load': syntax error on line 27, col 0: `adapter = uri.scheme' (ArgumentError)
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:236:in `load_dependency'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/config.ru:2:in `block in <main>'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/syck.rb:135:in `load'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:51:in `instance_eval'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:51:in `initialize'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/lib/firefly/database.rb:8:in `config'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/lib/firefly/database.rb:13:in `<top (required)>'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/lib/firefly/database.rb:4:in `connect!'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `block in require'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/server.rb:137:in `start'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.1/bin/rackup:4:in `<top (required)>'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/config.ru:1:in `new'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/bin/rackup:19:in `<main>'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:40:in `eval'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/lib/firefly.rb:30:in `<top (required)>'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/config.ru:1:in `<main>'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/config.ru:2:in `require'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/server.rb:252:in `start'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/server.rb:301:in `wrapped_app'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/server.rb:200:in `app'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/bin/rackup:19:in `load'
2012-12-31T05:36:26+00:00 app[web.1]:   from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:40:in `parse_file'
2012-12-31T05:36:28+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Process exited with status 1
2012-12-31T05:36:28+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to crashed
2012-12-31T05:41:04+00:00 heroku[router]: at=error code=H10 desc="App crashed" method=GET path=/ host=rxlcc.herokuapp.com fwd=71.212.33.130 dyno= queue= wait= connect= service= status=503 bytes=
2012-12-31T05:41:05+00:00 heroku[router]: at=error code=H10 desc="App crashed" method=GET path=/favicon.ico host=rxlcc.herokuapp.com fwd=71.212.33.130 dyno= queue= wait= connect= service= status=503 bytes=

my heroku addons:

heroku-postgresql:dev  HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_NAVY

Keep more accurate click-stats

These stats can laster be used to show fancy graphs and so on.

Add console command to generate a firefly instance

A console command that creates a new directory structure containing the necessary public and tmp directories for passenger et al. and a sample config.ru file.

set :order, :random not making random

I set this in my config file, but I still appear to be getting sequential URLs.

What is a 'normal' number of dynos needed to run firefly?

For those of you using it in production, are you fine using 1 web dyno for the whole shebang, or is the baseline higher than that?

Silent failure on api key login

Whenever I enter any value into the API key field and submit the form, I always get redirected back to the login page without any errors regardless of what I enter in the field. It only happens on my prod ubuntu box with ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [x86_64-linux] and firefly 1.5.2 .

Highlight does not work correctly when shortening an existing URL.

Highlight does not work correctly when shortening an existing URL.

URLs with params don't work

Hey there,
Totally loving Firefly, but I just discovered a small issue.
This URL http://marcatomusician.com/?id=9 causes an error, but this http://marcatomusician.com/ doesn't. Is this possibly an oversight?

[contest] Firefly needs a logo and website

Domain's ready, only thing missing is a nice Firefly logo and website design.

Goal

The design and logo will be used to promote the open source Firefly application only. Mainly on http://fireflyrb.com

What's firefly

Firefly is a open source (free) URL shortener service that users can self-host. It's written in Ruby.

Specs

• Clear and recognizable logo, preferably in 300dpi format as well.
• HTML5/CSS3 compliant design, no javascript, use of images allowed.

We're not looking for hosting or WordPress themes; just a simple HTML design that can be filled with user documentation. Look at http://gembundler.com/ for some inspiration.

Submit your logo/design

Please sent your submission or any questions to [email protected]

Delete shortened URLs

It should be possible to delete a shortened URL from the backend. This will result in an HTTP 410 "Gone" error message.

This includes a nice page saying the URL will not be back.

do_mysql not found, can't install

Hello, exited to user firefly instead of bit.ly!

but your docs don't have a 'getting started' section so I'm going a bit by the seat of my pants here.

I put into my Gemfile

gem 'firefly' "~> 1.5.3"

and with bundle install got

checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
An error occurred while installing do_mysql (0.10.10), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install do_mysql -v '0.10.10'` succeeds before bundling.

I use postgres in dev and production and deploy to heroku.

(I also won't know how to user your API after I get it installed, again because no docs for it)

Thanks!

Create a more elaborate API

The API should support the following:

• Shorten a long_url to a short_url (currently supported)
• Expand a given short_url or hash to the full URL
• Get stats (clicks, created_at) for a given short_url or hash.

This API should work with JSON at least, shortening should also work as TXT (i.e. just return the short_url)

Make sure the `code` column is case sensitive.

MySQL is not case sensitive by default. See: http://wiki.github.com/ariejan/firefly/faq for details.

Firefly should check for this and fix the issue when possible. It should at least issue a warning when finding the 'case insensitive' state.

Share-to-* double-encodes titles

If a title is url encoded it will be re-encoded when sharing to twitter or hyves.

"Test Post" => "Test%20Post"
"Test%20Post" => "Test%2520Post"

This is incorrect.

Long URLs break back-end layout

If a long URL is too long it will break the back-end layout.

Not working if an url contains the '%' character

The '%' gets escaped himself. E.g. shortening http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski%27s_circle-squaring_problem gives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski%2527s_circle-squaring_problem

Setup gitter.im to help users and contributors

Add 'copy to clipboard' icon

Add the little icon that allows you to quickly copy the shortened URL to your clipboard.

Handle requests to /

This is a beginner friendly issue which means that it should be a nice first task if you're looking to learn Ruby or Hanami. Feel free to ask questions in the comments or hop over to gitter to chat with the maintainer and others. And remember to have fun!

How to reproduce

1. Start with hanami server
2. Visit http://localhost:2300/
3. Get a 404 error

How to fix

There are two options here:

1. Show a generic FireFly landing page
2. Redirect to /admin

Or combine both by linking to /admin on the landing page.

Shorten and Expand URLs

Try to stick to the bit.ly API as much as possible for compatibility reasons.

Allow text-hosting

Allow an item to consist of just text, optionally support syntax highlighting and rendering of markdown and other markup languages, if possible.

Validate long url

Validate long url and return an error if it's no a valid http:// or https:// url.

Ruby 1.9.2 compatibility

Firefly currently runs properly on Ruby 1.8.7 and REE.

Currently, for ruby 1.9.2 not all tests pass:

  1) Sharing hyves should escape UTF-8 correctly
     Failure/Error: self.send verb, '/api/share', @params.merge(:title => title)
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `empty?' for nil:NilClass
     # (erb):201:in `pretty'
     # ./spec/firefly/sharing_hyves_spec.rb:91:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'

  2) Sharing twitter should escape UTF-8 correctly
     Failure/Error: self.send verb, '/api/share', @params.merge(:title => title)
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `empty?' for nil:NilClass
     # (erb):201:in `pretty'
     # ./spec/firefly/sharing_twitter_spec.rb:87:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'

Easy Firefly instantiation

This includes a generator and documentation on how to select and configure a database.

Bonus points for deployment to Heroku.

Disable auto_complete and spellchecking for big_url field

Disable auto_complete and spellchecking for big_url field.