Question

My goal is to deploy a simple rails application on a windows server using the glassfish gem.

I have no trouble getting the glassfish gem to work with regular http, however I now need to add SSL security and I cannot find any links on how to enable https in the glassfish gem.

Has anyone succeeded in setting up the glassfish gem to support SSL?

Are there any other ways to serve a rails application over SSL on windows without any additional software installation (e.g. IIS, Glassfish, jBoss)?

Answer 1

I use jetty-rails gem and I coded SSL support in it.
If you choose to use jetty-rails as well you can follow these instructions to add SSL.
Make sure you use jetty-rails version 0.6 as current 0.8.1 is buggy.
I’m sure that GlassFish too can be made to use SSL in a similar way.
I chose Jetty as it seems faster (startup) smaller and easier to change the source.

jetty_rails-0.6/lib/jetty_rails/server.rb +32

  if config[:ssl] and config[:ssl] == true
    if config[:keystore] =~ /^\\/ # starts with slash => absolute dir
      keystore = config[:keystore]
    else # assume keystore is in cofig dir
      keystore = @config[:base] + '/config/' + config[:keystore]
    end
    if not config[:truststore].nil? # have separate truststore
      if config[:truststore] =~ /^\\/ # starts with slash => absolute dir
        truststore = config[:truststore]
      else # assume keystore is in cofig dir
        truststore = @config[:base] + '/config/' + config[:truststore]
      end
    else # trustore == keystore
      truststore = keystore
    end

    security_connector = Jetty::Security::SslSocketConnector.new
    security_connector.set_acceptors(config[:acceptor_size])
    security_connector.port = config[:port]
    security_connector.confidential_port = config[:port]
    security_connector.keystore = keystore
    security_connector.password = config[:password]
    security_connector.key_password = config[:key_password].nil? ? config[:password] : config[:key_password]
    security_connector.truststore = truststore
    security_connector.trust_password = config[:trust_pasword].nil? ? config[:password] : config[:trust_pasword]
    @server.add_connector(security_connector)
  else
    connector = Jetty::SelectChannelConnector.new
    connector.set_acceptors(config[:acceptor_size])
    connector.port = config[:port]
    connector.confidential_port = config[:security_port] if config[:security_port]
    @server.add_connector(connector)
  end

how to generate a certificate store (keystore.jks)

See here: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/How+to+configure+SSL

RAILS_ROOT/config/jetty_rails.yml

# Config
:port: 3000
:jruby_min_runtimes: <%= config[:environment] == 'production' ? 3 : 1 %>
:jruby_max_runtimes: <%= config[:environment] == 'production' ? 6 : 2 %>
:thread_pool_max: 40
:thread_pool_min: 4
:acceptor_size: 10

# Security
:ssl: true
:keystore: keystore.jks
:password: your_pass
# :key_password: your_pass # if different
# :truststore: truststore.jks # if different
# :trust_pasword: your_pass # if different

start the server

jruby -S jetty_rails -c config/jetty_rails.yml