development ssl (rails 4)

readme.md

Create your self-signed certificate and put it in ~/fake_ssl (https://gist.github.com/trcarden/3295935)

Thanks to (http://www.railway.at/2013/02/12/using-ssl-in-your-local-rails-environment/)

application_controller.rb

  #...
  force_ssl if: :ssl_configured?
  def ssl_configured?
    # Rails.env.production?
    true
  end
  #...

config-initializers-monkey_patch.rb

# just for development!

ActionController::ForceSSL::ClassMethods.module_eval do
  def force_ssl(options = {})
    config = Rails.application.config

    host = options.delete(:host)
    port = config.ssl_port if config.respond_to?(:ssl_port) && config.ssl_port.present? # <= this is also new

    before_filter(options) do
      if !request.ssl?# && !Rails.env.development? # commented out the exclusion of the development environment
        redirect_options = {protocol: 'https://', status: :moved_permanently}
        redirect_options.merge!(host: host) if host
        redirect_options.merge!(port: port) if port # <= this is also new
        redirect_options.merge!(params: request.query_parameters)
        redirect_to redirect_options
      end
    end
  end
end

development.rb

YourApp::Application.configure do
  # ...
  config.port = 5000
  config.ssl_port = 5001
end

Gemfile

#...

# gem 'unicorn'
gem 'thin'

#...

non_ssl_controller.rb

  #...
  def ssl_configured?
    false
  end
  #...

Procfile

web: thin start -p 5000
ssl: thin start -p 5001 --ssl --ssl-key-file ~/fake_ssl/server.key --ssl-cert-file ~/fake_ssl/server.crt
# ...