title: rails 3 project, how to use tinyurl?
body: <p>Is anyone aware of how to get inyurls in a ruby 192/rails 3 app?</p>
  
  <p>I thought this would be simple... installed the gem 'shorturl' also added it to my Gemfile, did bundle install, and it all looked fine except when I run rails console it immediately throws an error so it's apparently not compatible with ruby 192/rails3.</p>
  
  <pre><code>c:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bundler-1.0.7/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:64:in `require': c:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/shorturl-0.8.8/lib/short
  url.rb:42: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or '\n' (SyntaxError)
                   when :post: http.post(@action, "#{@field...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I considered using Bitly, the gem installed fine, but bitly makes PUBLIC all of the urls you shorten... really not a good idea since we're providing urls to private links.</p>