On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Nathan Halterman wrote: > OOOOOkaaaaay. :) > > So it turns out that it was a timing issue. I was sending the > channel.on_data too fast for the UI to process. I added in some sleep > statements and it worked. Pardon the spurious + in my previous example, I started to write it in the style of a patch to make it clear what I had changed, then thought that would actually make it more obscure! I'm not familiar with Net::ssh, but I suspect there will be a way to read from the remote machine as well as write to it. I'd recommend, that if you have echoing on (you can see what you type) that you try to read back what you sent. That way you will have less dependence on "magic" timing numbers, though you will have to be careful how you match what you get back, as is the case when you use Expect. If the system gets loaded and you have to wait for the echo, then that's still OK. > > Thanks a ton! :) > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > Hugh