Net::SSH Force tty

Ruby
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Hey guys,

I was wondering if there was a way using the Force pseudo-tty
allocation. If I was just to use SSH, I would use the -t flag, but I
can’t seem to find a solution for Ruby anywhere. Any help would be
appreciated!

Shawn

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Umm… Ruby isn’t a shell. Can you please explain what you want to do,
exactly?

2008/6/20 Shawn J. [email protected]:

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Bryan JJ Buckley wrote:

Umm… Ruby isn’t a shell. Can you please explain what you want to do,
exactly?

2008/6/20 Shawn J. [email protected]:

Well, I want to use Net::SSH with ruby to excecute some commands via
ssh, but I need the to force the tty. IF I was using a shell, I could
just type ssh -t, so I was wondering if there was a way to do this with
the ssh ruby library.

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2008/6/20 Shawn J. [email protected]:

Well, I want to use Net::SSH with ruby to excecute some commands via
ssh, but I need the to force the tty. IF I was using a shell, I could
just type ssh -t, so I was wondering if there was a way to do this with
the ssh ruby library.

It sounds like you need to send a pty request - take a look at:

http://net-ssh.rubyforge.org/ssh/v2/api/index.html

and search for “request_pty” (assuming you’re on the current v2
Net::SSH). You might also want to look at Capistrano, for an example
of how this is used - it has a “force pty” option, so you should be
able to see what that does.

Chris.