How to bypass SSL certificate verification in open-uri?

Question

I try to access a file with open-uri over an https connection. Unfortunately somethings wrong with the certificate, I get a certificate verify failed error. I can\'

Answer 1

Found it out myself now: I used the dirty hack, which works fine for me.

I had to put it into: yourrailsapp/initalizers/

There I created a bypass_ssl_verification_for_open_uri.rb

And put:

OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE