on(:local) fails on windows

[jarredholman]

Etc.getpwuid returns nil on windows so SSHKit::Host.new(:local) raises an exception

[leehambley]

Don't use on(:local) there's no good reason not to use the standard Ruby/Rake APIs. It exists for legacy reasons, if it doesn't work on your platform please provide a patch if you can.

[leehambley]

http://stackoverflow.com/a/3544741/119669 might give you a place to start.

[jarredholman]

Well I am using run_locally in capistrano and this bug is preventing me from updating to the latest version.
I guess I'll try to avoid using that.

[leehambley]

There's literally nothing to be gained by using run_locally(), if you're on Windows and something is unsupported, you can monkey patch it anyway, the SO link shows some ways you might work around that rather than refactoring your code. run_locally is basically no different to shelling out with Ruby http://julialang.org/blog/2012/03/shelling-out-sucks/ unless you are using the command map, and plugins, etc which essentially don't do anything locally anyway.

[mattbrictson]

I think this has been fixed by #293