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/**
 * Easy tinyUrl usage from grails
 * Put this code into bootstrap or somewhere where it will be executed once at startup
 */
String.metaClass.getTinyUrl = {
  new URL("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=${delegate.encodeAsURL()}").text
}

// now you can use the tinyUrl property of every string to get a tinyUrl for given address
println "http://www.nabble.com/codehaus---grails-f11860.html".tinyUrl