Thin with SSL support and ruby-debug

Question

Does anyone know of a way to run the ruby debugger and SSL at the same time with Thin?

I\'ve been using Thin successfully with Rails 3.0.10.

I start it using

Answer 1

I was able to successfully get the debugging working with ssl enabled thin, using the solution suggested by nathan. Though I had to do one small change of deferring initialization of @ssl after the call of initialize_without_ssl (an alias method for the original TcpServer's initialize)

require 'thin'
module Thin
  module Backends
    TcpServer.class_eval do
      def initialize_with_SSL(host, port)
        if Rails.env.development?
          Rails.logger.info "Loading SSL certs from ./ssl_dev..."
          @ssl_options = {
            :private_key_file => File.expand_path("../../ssl_dev/server.key", __FILE__),
            :cert_chain_file  => File.expand_path("../../ssl_dev/server.crt", __FILE__),
            :verify_peer => nil
          }
        end

        initialize_without_SSL(host, port)
        # @ssl initialized after calling the original initialize of TcpServer
        @ssl = true if Rails.env.development? 

      end

      alias_method :initialize_without_SSL, :initialize
      alias_method :initialize, :initialize_with_SSL      
    end
  end
end

  alias_method :initialize_without_SSL, :initialize
  alias_method :initialize, :initialize_with_SSL      
end

In the above code snippett, @ssl is set to true after calling the original initialize call of Thin::Backend::TcpServer. I had to do this since the TcpServer invokes its parent's initialize (Thin::Backend:Base) that sets the @ssl to nil

  #Base initialize method. Thin gem version 1.5.0
  def initialize
    @connections                    = []
    @timeout                        = Server::DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
    @persistent_connection_count    = 0
    @maximum_connections            = Server::DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_CONNECTIONS
    @maximum_persistent_connections = Server::DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_PERSISTENT_CONNECTIONS
    @no_epoll                       = false
    @ssl                            = nil
    @threaded                       = nil
  end

As noted in nathan's code block, the whole solution appears to be a hack around. In my opinion, I am fine with the snippet considering the code is done within the context of env.development and most importantly it allows debugging with ssl enabled.