Using webistrano with ssh_keys for SSH public key authentication

[andypflueger]

I've been battling with trying to get SSH public key authentication working with our Webistrano server for deployment of our Rails applications. We'd like to use Webistrano to make it simpler to deploy to our test & prod environments. I've setup the hosts and stages and project within Webistrano, but when I try to execute the deploy:setup task on the stages, the status indicator just sits and spins and never responds back. I'm prompting for the ssh user and runner as defined in our project definition. I also have the ssh_keys pointed at the absolute path to my ssh public key that I want to use for Webistrano SSH authentication.