2010-03-16 RUNNING TESTS Run the test suite from the net-ssh directory with the following command: ruby -Ilib -Itest -rrubygems test/test_all.rb Run a single test file like this: ruby -Ilib -Itest -rrubygems test/transport/test_server_version.rb EXPECTED RESULTS * Ruby 1.8: all tests pass * Ruby 1.9: all tests pass * JRuby 1.4: 96% tests pass (242 tests, 554 assertions, 0 failures, 8 errors) PORT FORWARDING TESTS ruby -Ilib -Itest -rrubygems test/manual/test_forward.rb test_forward.rb must be run separately from the test suite because it requires authorizing your public SSH keys on you localhost. If you already have keys you can do this: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys If you don't have keys see: http://kimmo.suominen.com/docs/ssh/#ssh-keygen You should now be able to login to your localhost with out bring prompted for a password: ssh localhost