Error occuring when trying to clone github repo with SSH credentials using rugged

[gabriel403]

When trying to clone a remote repo with Rugged, I keep getting the error
Failed to authenticate SSH session: Unable to open public key file

I add my ssh credentials fine, but when I come to doing the clone the above error occurs.

cred = Rugged::Credentials::SshKey.new({username: 'gabriel403', publickey: publickey, privatekey: privatekey})
Rails.logger.debug cred

Where publickey and privatekey are string holding the keys.

repo = Rugged::Repository.clone_at('git@github.com:gabriel403/dotfiles.git', '/tmp/dotfiles', {credentials: cred})
Rails.logger.debug repo

[arthurschreiber]

publickey and privatekey need to be the paths to your key files, not the key contents.

[gabriel403]

Gah! Is it not possible with strings or StringIO?

[arthurschreiber]

Nope, it's a limitation we inherit from libgit2. You should open an issue in the libgit2 repo.

[gabriel403]

Tempfile to the rescue

[arthurschreiber]

Yeah, or that. 👍

[gabriel403]

@arthurschreiber I also posted the question on SO if you wanted to answer there for some rep
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22888050/error-occuring-when-trying-to-clone-github-repo-with-ssh-credentials-using-rugge

[boblail]

It is now possible to pass a keypair via a buffer instead of a path. For this, GIT_CREDTYPE_SSH_MEMORY and git_cred_ssh_key_memory_new() have been added.

It looks like support for this was added to libgit2 in 0.23.0

[arthurschreiber]

I'll add support for this asap.

[gabriel403]

💖

[boblail]

🌟 thanks!

[arthurschreiber]

@gabriel403 @boblail Check out #501. It will only work with very recent versions of libssh2.