Developing with SSL

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I've recently modified a site to use SSL for some of the pages, and I have it working on the production box. However, in my development environment, I'm using RadRails on Windows, which provides a Mongrel server for development. Since this setup doesn't support SSL, I can no longer exercise the site fully in my development environment.

Is there a way to support SSL within the RadRails/Mongrel environment? I don't think it uses Apache at all.

I could set up an Apache+Mongrel setup on my dev box to mirror the production box setup... is that the way to go? (I was hoping to avoid that extra complexity, but maybe I should stop resisting...)

thank,

Michael Slater www.mslater.com

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I have SSL enabled for production mode, but disabled in development/ test modes.

# in application.rb

# Force https usage for all links and redirects # Only do this in production mode, though, because localhost # probably doesn't have SSL enabled   if %w(production demo).include?(ENV['RAILS_ENV'])     def default_url_options(options)       { :protocol => 'https://' }     end   end

Does this help?

  -- Wes

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Hi Wes, wesgarrison wrote:

# in application.rb

# Force https usage for all links and redirects # Only do this in production mode, though, because localhost # probably doesn't have SSL enabled if %w(production demo).include?(ENV['RAILS_ENV'])    def default_url_options(options)      { :protocol => 'https://' }    end end

Does this help?

I meant to get back to you sooner and thank you for this after you suggested it last week. It was exactly what I needed. There's another approach that was suggested on the deploy list but it involved changes both in the app and on the server. I like this better since it puts everything in the app and I could also extend it to conditionally apply to specific controller / actions.

Thanks much. It really helped me.

Best regards, Bill