SSH Tunneling in Ruby

SSH Tunneling in Ruby // RailsTips by John Nunemaker:

The other day I wanted to do some queries in production, but our servers are pretty locked down to the outside world. I was well aware that I could just make an ssh tunnel to connect to the database server, but I decided I wanted to do it in Ruby. I am not the brightest of crayons in the box, so it took me a bit. Since I struggled with it for a few, I figured others probably will someday as well and decided to post my solution here. Obviously, replace the strings with <…> with your own information and change the host port information in the gateway.open call. require 'net/ssh/gateway' gateway = Net::SSH::Gateway.new('<myremotehostorip.com>', '<remote_user>') # Open port 27018 to forward to 127.0.0.1:27017 # on the remote host provided above gateway.open('127.0.0.1', 27017, 27018) # Connect to local port set in previous statement conn = Mongo::Connection.new('127.0.0.1', 27...

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