Programming on a remote machine [Eclipse - ruby]

Question

Has someone used any add-on on eclipse to develop on a remote machine ?

I am having to ssh through the terminal and copy paste the eclipse code to run it on a remote host that has the necessary permissions for the task. I am wondering if I can do that on eclipse from my ubuntu desktop

Thanks!

Edit: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS suggested by Shawn Bower works as far as the OS is concerned

Q] Unfortunately eclipse can open the script on remote mounted FS, however it doesnt show up in the Script explorer or in run Configurations. "Invalid working directory"

Q] Is there a way to sudo su when I am using SSHFS.

To give a perspective: Normally I log into the remote user as myself@remote and then sudo su - powerUser and then use that to run my ruby scripts. Unfortunately I do not have the pswd for powerUser.

So now though I can edit the scripts on eclipse after using SSHFS , I still cant run them as powerUSer.

Thanks !

Answer 1

Have you looked into using sshfs? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS. It will allow you to mount the remote file system so it acts as a local filesystem. Then you can just point eclipse at the local path and edit away. I use this for a bunch of sites.