Ruby on rails: force_ssl not redirecting from http to https when using thin start --ssl

Question

I have been trying to configure my rails project to use SSL (as application wide) with thin (by adding thin gem and placing config.force_ssl = true to applica

Answer 1

Use ngrok (https://ngrok.com/). It's free. Installation is easy.

Just start up your server, then in another terminal window run

ngrok http 3000

ngrok will give you an address that loops back to your dev machine - something like http://randomstringhere.ngrok.io

Put that in your browser and you'll see it redirect to https://randomstringhere.ngrok.io, still routing to your server on port 3000