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+= symphony-ssh
+
+== Description
+
+This is a small collection of base classes used for interacting with
+remote machines over ssh.  With them, you can use AMQP (via Symphony) to
+run batch commands, execute templates as scripts, and perform any
+batch/remoting stuff you can think of without the need of a separate
+client agent.
+
+These classes assume you have a user that can connect and login to
+remote machines using a password-less ssh keypair.  They are not meant
+to be used directly.  Subclass them!
+
+See the rdoc for additional information and examples.
+
+
+== Options
+
+Symphony-ssh uses
+Configurability[https://rubygems.org/gems/configurability] to determine
+behavior.  The configuration is a YAML[http://www.yaml.org/] file. 
+
+	symphony_ssh:
+		path: /usr/bin/ssh
+		user: root
+		key: /path/to/a/private_key.rsa
+		opts:
+		  - -e
+		  - none
+		  - -T
+		  - -x
+		  - -o
+		  - CheckHostIP=no'
+		  - -o
+		  - BatchMode=yes'
+		  - -o
+		  - StrictHostKeyChecking=no
+
+
+
+=== path
+
+The absolute path to the ssh binary.
+
+=== user
+
+The default user to connect to remote hosts with.  This can be
+changes per connection in the AMQP payload.
+
+=== key
+
+An absolute path to a password-less ssh private key.
+
+=== opts
+
+SSH client options, passed to the ssh binary on the command line.  Note
+that the defaults have been tested fairly extensively, these are just
+exposed if you have very specific needs and you know what you're doing.
+
+
+== Installation
+
+    gem install symphony-ssh
+
+
+== Contributing
+
+You can check out the current development source with Mercurial via its
+{project page}[http://bitbucket.org/mahlon/symphony-metronome]. 
+
+After checking out the source, run:
+
+    $ rake
+
+This task will run the tests/specs and generate the API documentation.
+
+If you use {rvm}[http://rvm.io/], entering the project directory will
+install any required development dependencies.
+
+
+== License
+
+Copyright (c) 2014, Mahlon E. Smith and Michael Granger
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
+  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
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+
+* Neither the name of the author/s, nor the names of the project's
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+
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