I’m working on some federated authentication (single sign-on) for 3rd-party applications and thought to use Ruby on Rails as a simple way to demo and develop the principles.
This is Rails, so it’s not entirely straightforward(*) but manageable on a Linux host.
In development mode, the default Webrick server does not support SSL, but a decent alternative is thin (https://github.com/macournoyer/thin) which also requires eventmachine.
To use thin with SSL we need to generate a self-signed certificate,
$ openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout neopir.key -x509 -days 365 -out neopir.crt Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key .....................+++ ..........................................+++ writing new private key to 'neopir.key' ----- You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated into your certificate request. What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN. There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank…
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