require 'mechanize'

  class Tinyurl 
  def self.make_tiny(big_url)
    url = "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=#{big_url}"
    agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
    agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari'
    results = agent.get(url)
    return results.body
  end

  def self.test(base="http://www.google.com?q=sanjay", iterations = 10)
    t=Time.now
    (0..iterations).to_a.each do |i|
      puts make_tiny("#{base}#{i}:#{rand(100000000)}")
    end
    puts Time.now-t
  end
 end

 Tinyurl.test