auth for remote hudson

[mwotton]

I'm trying to use jenkins.rb as an API to a remote jenkins server and am having a bit of trouble - how do you tell jenkins.rb the auth details for your server?

it is entirely possible that i am attempting to drive in a nail with a corkscrew here - is jenkins.rb intended to be used as a remote API?

[bramswenson]

I too need to know how to make jenkins.rb use ssl and basic auth. Being that lots of folks must protect their codebases, seems this won't be an uncommon request.