Arthur Nisnevich ArthurN

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.
Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

	/*
	* Copyright (c) 2010 Tobias Schneider
	* This script is freely distributable under the terms of the MIT license.
	*/

	(function(){
	var UPC_SET = {
	"3211": '0',
	"2221": '1',
	"2122": '2',

	set :sync_directories, ["public/system/images"]
	set :sync_backups, 3
	set :db_file, "mongoid.yml"
	set :db_drop, '--drop' # drop database (rewrites everything)

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>KeepAlive</key>
	<true/>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>com.rabbitmq.rabbitmq-server</string>
	<key>Program</key>
	<string>/usr/local/sbin/rabbitmq-server</string>

	module Tilt
	class HandlebarsSlimTemplate < ::Slim::Template; end

	register HandlebarsSlimTemplate, :handlebars_slim
	end

	class Slim::EmbeddedEngine
	register :handlebars, TagEngine, tag: :script, attributes: { type: "text/x-handlebars" }
	register :handlebars_slim, TagEngine, tag: :script, attributes: { type: "text/x-handlebars" }, engine: StaticTiltEngine
	end

	# The BootstrapBreadcrumbsBuilder is a Bootstrap compatible breadcrumb builder.
	# It provides basic functionalities to render a breadcrumb navigation according to Bootstrap's conventions.
	#
	# BootstrapBreadcrumbsBuilder accepts a limited set of options:
	# * separator: what should be displayed as a separator between elements
	#
	# You can use it with the :builder option on render_breadcrumbs:
	# <%= render_breadcrumbs :builder => ::BootstrapBreadcrumbsBuilder, :separator => "»" %>
	#
	# Note: You may need to adjust the autoload_paths in your config/application.rb file for rails to load this class:

	//= require jquery
	//= require jquery_ujs

	$(function() {
	var source = new EventSource('/stream');
	source.addEventListener('counter', function(e) {
	$('body').after(e.data + '<br />');
	});
	});

	# When an RSpec test like this fails,
	#
	# @my_array.should == [@some_model, @some_model2]
	#
	# RSpec will call inspect on each of the objects to "help" you figure out
	# what went wrong. Well, inspect will usually dump a TON OF SHIT and make trying
	# to figure out why `@my_array` is not made up of `@some_model` and `@some_model2`.
	#
	# This little module and technique helps get around that. It will redefine `inspect`
	# if you include it in your model object.

	# config/locales/en.yml

	en:
	exception:
	show:
	not_found:
	title: "Not Found"
	description: "The page you were looking for does not exists."
	internal_server_error:
	title: "Internal Server Error"

	group :production do
	gem "unicorn"
	end