Added to_s when doing Hash#to_param so that numbers don't throw error when then get encoded.

examples/rubyurl.rb

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 dir = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib'))
 require File.join(dir, 'httparty')
+require 'pp'
 
 class Rubyurl
   include HTTParty
   base_uri 'rubyurl.com'
 
   def self.shorten( website_url )
-    xml = post('/api/links.json', :query => {'link[website_url]' => website_url})
+    post( '/api/links.json', :query => { :link => { :website_url => website_url } } )
-    xml['link'] && xml['link']['permalink']
   end
 end
 
-puts Rubyurl.shorten( 'http://istwitterdown.com/' ).inspect
+pp Rubyurl.shorten( 'http://istwitterdown.com/' )

examples/twitter.rb

@@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ twitter = Twitter.new(config['email'], config['password'])
 pp twitter.timeline
 # pp twitter.timeline(:friends, :query => {:since_id => 868482746})
 # pp twitter.timeline(:friends, :query => 'since_id=868482746')
-pp twitter.post('this is a test of 0.2.0')
+# pp twitter.post('this is a test of 0.2.0')

examples/whoismyrep.rb

@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ class Rep
   include HTTParty
 end
 
-puts Rep.get('http://whoismyrepresentative.com/whoismyrep.php?zip=46544').inspect
+pp Rep.get('http://whoismyrepresentative.com/whoismyrep.php?zip=46544')
+pp Rep.get('http://whoismyrepresentative.com/whoismyrep.php', :query => {:zip => 46544})

lib/core_extensions.rb

@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ class Hash
     elsif value.is_a?(Hash)
       stack << [key,value]
     else
-      param << "#{key}=#{URI.encode(value)}&"
+      param << "#{key}=#{URI.encode(value.to_s)}&"
     end
 
     stack.each do |parent, hash|