Net::SSH is a pure-Ruby implementation of an SSH (v2) client. It can be used to execute tasks on and forward connections to and from remote hosts via SSH. You can grab version 1.1.0 now via RubyGems: gem install net-ssh Or, you can grab a package via the project’s page at RubyForge. Version 1.1.0 has three significant changes from the previous release: A script that implements a subset of the ssh-