From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-05-08T11:04:35+09:00
Subject: Re: PROBLEMS CREATING AN SSH TUNNEL

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Clem Rock <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>   I'm writing a series of test that test credit cart transactions and
> our card service relies on communicating to a sabrix server through an
> ssh tunnel.
> I've created something that works but I have to admit, it doesn't make
> sense because I'm using a combination of a unix exec call and
> Net::SSH::Gateway.
> In order for the ssh tunnel work with the tests to to work they HAVE to
> work in conjunction to each other.  I'm ok with it but it seems like 1
> out of 10 times, the tests will fail because the ssh tunnel isn't open
> for some reason.   I've tried about every solution out there but can't
> seem to get anything else to work.    Here's the code:
>
> [code]
>   def setup
>     super
>     @controller = AccountController.new
>     @pid = fork{ exec("ssh -N -L 8888:10.0.1.68:8080
> test@test.test.com") } #this has to be open in a thread
>     @gateway = Net::SSH::Gateway.new('test.test.com', 'deploy')
> #this has to be created as well
>     sleep(1) #sleep just a tad to let everything start up
>   end
>
>   def test_update_credit_card_info
>     #test code here…
>   end
> [/code]
>
> And in my teardown method, I'm killing the ssh tunnel like this:
>
> [code]
>   def teardown
>     system("kill -9 #{@pid}") #kill by pid
>     @gateway.shutdown!    #kill the Net::SSH::Gateway instance
>   end
> [/code]
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
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Just off the top of my head, instead of doing the setup and tear down,
perhaps pass the test code into a method as a block that does that
stuff, and mock the Net::SSH stuff?