Override Radiant CMS's routes from the extension to set protocol to https

Question

I am using a CMS called Radiant (version 0.9.1), Rails 2.3.18 and Ruby 1.8.7. I have to make the routes in this gem use the 'https'. I need to do it in such a way that I won't edit the gem source files itself, but rather override the gem's routes in the extension. How do I do this?

Answer 1

The configuration of the server really depends on what your server stack looks like

To configure your rails application to use SSL you need to force ssl

In your config/environments/production.rb:

config.force_ssl = true

To test ssl locally I would suggest trying thin as a webserver (also put config.force_ssl in development.rb to test this )

Add:

gem 'thin' 

To your gemfile and start a thin ssl server:

$ thin start --ssl -p 3000

EDIT Rails 2 :

For Rails 2 this should work:

lib/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/production.rb

config.middleware.use "ForceSSL"

config/application.rb

require File.expand_path('../../lib/force_ssl.rb', __FILE__)

source: Force SSL using ssl_requirement in Rails 2 app