Project page: http://rubyforge.org/projects/net-ssh
User Manual: http://net-ssh.rubyforge.org
API Docs: http://net-ssh.rubyforge.org/api
This release is the result of two months' refactoring. Net::SSH is now
dependent upon Needle 1.2, and is now much more internally consistent,
unit testable, maintainable, and extendable. Yay!
Note: this release does not include SFTP support. SFTP support is now
being developed separately (Net::SFTP) and will see an initial release a
week or two after Thanksgiving. This release also does not include the
rb-keygen utility. That (and other command-line utilities) will be
released separately, as well. If you need SFTP support, you are
encouraged to continue using Net::SSH 0.1.0.
The API has changed! Scripts written for Net::SSH 0.1 and earlier will
almost certainly not work unmodified with 0.5. Although there have been
LOTS of changes internally, the primary external changes are:
1) Net::SSH::Session#main_loop is renamed to Net::SSH::Session#loop.
2) Net::SSH::Session#exec is gone. Use Channel#exec (with
Session#loop) instead.
3) Port forwarding and interacting with remote processes now use
different interfaces. If your scripts use these features, see the
relevant sections in the revised Net::SSH users manual. (These features
are easier to use, now.)
As before, if you are using a version of Ruby < 1.8.2, you'll need to
grab an updated snapshot of the OpenSSL module for Ruby. (You can get it
either from a recent Ruby source tarball, or from the Net::SSH downloads
page, though the recent Ruby tarball will have the more recent version.)