feat(connect): add --tunnel-only for external GUI clients#1018
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Opens the same SSH tunnel `connect` already uses for psql/mongosh/etc, but skips launching a client and instead prints host/port/user/pass and holds the tunnel open until Ctrl+C — for pointing TablePlus, DBeaver, pgAdmin, or similar at a private-only database.
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Summary
railway connectalready opens a local SSH tunnel to the database when there's no public proxy (feat(connect): tunnel to private databases over SSH #955), but it immediately launchespsql/mongosh/etc against it and tears the tunnel down when the client exits — there was no way to just hold the tunnel open for an external GUI client.--tunnel-only: opens the same tunnel, skips launching a database client, prints host/port/user/password/database (what TablePlus, DBeaver, pgAdmin, etc. expect) plus the full URL, and holds the tunnel open until Ctrl+C.--ssh; conflicts with--no-ssh.Test plan
cargo buildcargo test(connect.rs suite, 9/9 passing)cargo fmt --checkrailway connect --helpshows the new flag and examplerailway connect postgres --tunnel-only --no-sshcorrectly rejected as conflicting args