Using glassfish gem (or other webserver) with SSL - ssl

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