Yeah but why Ruby? It's what shell scripting has been invented for :) While I admit many looong shell monstrosities are better implemented in something like Ru

Yeah but why Ruby? It's what shell scripting has been invented for :) While I admit many looong shell monstrosities are better implemented in something like Ruby, and I myself use Ruby as a scripting language of choice for anything longer that a one screen of text, this time looks like it's kind of - excuse my language - overrubyism. I understand there's a tendency of rewriting everytning in The One Beloved Language and I'm a victim of this approach myself occasionally. But seriously, this could be a shell few-liner! Anyway thanks for advertising the idea of ssh -R tunnels, they are a neat trick!