ssh-copy-rmate allows you to easily copy the remote script to your server using the same syntax as ssh-copy-id

ssh-copy-rmate

#!/bin/sh -r
#
# Usage: ssh-copy-rmate [--bash] [user@]machine
#
# Shell script to install rmate on the remove server so we can open shell scripts locally.
# Author: Leon Radley (http://github.com/leon)

URL="https://raw.github.com/avian/rmate/master/rmate"

if [ "$#" -gt 1 ] || [ "$1" = "-b" ] || [ "$1" = "--bash" ]; then
	shift
	URL="https://raw.github.com/aurora/rmate/master/rmate.sh"
fi

if [ "$#" -lt 1 ] || [ "$1" = "-h" ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then

cat <<EOF
Usage: $0 [--bash] [user@]machine

# Install TextMate2 and enable rmate in the preferences
http://blog.macromates.com/2011/mate-and-rmate/

# Setup ssh for easy access
edit ~/.ssh/config

# The automatic forwarding
RemoteForward 52698 localhost:52698

# Standard user, so you can do ssh servername instead of root@servername
User root

# Custom aliases
Host myalias
  HostName myserver.mydomain.com
  User myuser

EOF
exit 1
fi

wget --quiet -O - "${URL}" | ssh ${1%:} 'umask 077; test -d /usr/local/bin || mkdir -p /usr/local/bin; cat > /usr/local/bin/rmate; chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/rmate' || exit 1

cat <<EOF

Installation complete!
For more information run $0 --help

EOF