Configure WEBrick to use automatically generated self-signed SSL/HTTPS certificate

Question

I want to develop my Ruby on Rails application locally with SSL/HTTPS, but I\'m having trouble trying to setup a server to use SSL. The following are the things I\'ve alread

Answer 1

Okay, I figured out what was wrong, I should've paid closer attention to the instructions for HTTPS in WEBrick, this is the exact code from the example:

require 'webrick'
require 'webrick/https' # SEE THIS?

cert_name = [
  %w[CN localhost],
]

server = WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port => 8000,
                                 :SSLEnable => true,
                                 :SSLCertName => cert_name)

See that line that says require 'webrick/https'? I didn't have that in my original config. I didn't think that I'd need it.

Once I added it, my script started serving over HTTPS, and I could finally connect to https://localhost:4430/robots.txt. <face-palm>