Straight Dope¶ ↑

StraightDope is a gem for getting the URLs of media content from sites such as yfrog and Twitpic. Currently supported services:

• yfrog

• TwitPic

• Lockerz

• Twitgoo

• img.ly

• Mobypicture

Coming soon:

• Posterous

Getting Started¶ ↑

Add this to your Gemfile and run the bundle command.

gem "straight_dope"

To use it, simply call extract_media on a string.

StraightDope.extract_media("put your urls here")

StraightDope will return you an array of URL strings, that you can use directly in your HTML tags.

Future Enhancements¶ ↑

• oEmbed support

• API keys

• Video support

• Different sizes

Reference¶ ↑

Straight Dope was inspired from these blog posts.

jasonneylon.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/twitter-picture-previews-with-ruby

railstips.org/blog/archives/2009/03/04/following-redirects-with-nethttp