Rails local development with SSL on Mac OS X

Rails-local-development-with-SSL-on-Mac-OS-X.md

Assumes you will be running your local app at local.dev, and already have a hosts file entry for this domain pointing to 127.0.0.1.

Generate self-signed cert and key

openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -sha1 -days 365 -nodes -x509 -keyout ~/path/to/local.dev.key -out ~/path/to/local.dev.crt

You can leave all the address and organization info blank.

For the common name use local.dev, or *.local.dev if you want to access subdomains.

Trust the cert in keychain

Add the cert to keychain

open /Applications/Utilities/Keychain\ Access.app ~/path/to/local.dev.crt

Follow these instructions to trust the cert: https://gist.github.com/jed/6147872#avoid-https-warnings-by-telling-os-x-to-trust-the-certificate

Start rails using thin with ssl options

thin start --ssl --ssl-key-file ~/path/to/local.dev.key --ssl-cert-file ~/path/to/local.dev.crt

Sources

https://gist.github.com/jed/6147872

https://gist.github.com/trcarden/3295935#gistcomment-772362