A transport abstraction layer for running commands and manipulating files over SSH, WinRM, and more.

require 'airlift'

# Create a connection.
conn = Airlift.connect('ssh://[email protected]')
# Run a command.
puts conn.execute!('uname -a').stdout
# Get the content of a file.
puts conn.file('/etc/motd').content
# Upload a file.
conn.file('/tmp/config.rb').upload('config.rb')

To create a connection object, use Airlift.connect. You can specify either a connection URI, a hash of options, or both. When using the URI style the scheme will be used as the connection plugin name; the URI's hostname, port, username, and password will be used as their relevant field, and the query string will be parsed for additional key/value pairs.

# Example of URI style.
Airlift.connect('ssh://me:[email protected]')
# Example of hash style.
Airlift.connect(name: 'ssh', user: 'me', password: 'secret', host: 'example.com')

When using the hash style, if no explicit plugin name is given it will default to ssh if a host if provided or local if it is not.

Airlift.start can also be passed a block, in which case the connection will be closed automatically.

Airlift.connect('ssh://coderanger.net') do |conn|
  # ...
end

The connection object is the core interface to working with the remote system. The two main methods on it are command(cmd) for creating Airlift::Command objects and file(path) for creating Airlift::File objects.

For convenience two other command methods are provided, execute(cmd) will create a command object and immediately run it, and execute!(cmd) will create a command object, run it, and raise an exception if it fails.

You can use the tempfile() method to create a temporary file or directory.

The command object contains information about a single command, the parameters it will be run with and the results of running it. It matches the API of Mixlib::ShellOut but some of the options are not supported (domain, password, user, group, umask, and login).

Use conn.command('command to run', options) to create a new command object. Once you have the object, call cmd.run_command to actually run it and then you can look in cmd.stdout, cmd.stderr, and cmd.exitstatus for the results.

Additional options on top of the standard ShellOut API:

• sudo – Boolean for if the command should be run using sudo. (default: connection-level configuration)
• sudo_password – Password for sudo. NOT IMPLEMENTED
• pty – Request a PTY for the command. (default: true)

Development sponsored by Bloomberg.

The Poise test server infrastructure is sponsored by Rackspace.

Copyright 2016, Noah Kantrowitz

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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