Rails 3 SSL Deprecation

Question

I am upgrading an application to Rails 3.0.0 and am wondering if the standard method for adding SSL has changed (I vaguely remember demos indicating the router could now han

Answer 1

After spending an afternoon looking for the best solution I settled on the approach described in this article: http://clearcove.ca/blog/2010/11/how-to-secure-a-rails-app-on-heroku-with-ssl-firesheep/ which referenced this article: Force SSL using ssl_requirement in Rails 2 app

Basically do this:

# lib/middleware/force_ssl.rb
class ForceSSL
  def initialize(app)
    @app = app
  end

  def call(env)
    if env['HTTPS'] == 'on' || env['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] == 'https'
      @app.call(env)
    else
      req = Rack::Request.new(env)
      [301, { "Location" => req.url.gsub(/^http:/, "https:") }, []]
    end
  end
end

# config/application.rb
config.autoload_paths += %W( #{ config.root }/lib/middleware )

# config/environments/production.rb
config.middleware.use "ForceSSL"