Selenium does not speak SSL because it uses WEBrick that doesn't. When you use Selenium for Cucumber scenarios that visit pages with SSL, they will fail.

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To turn off SSL only for scenarios that are executed on WEBrick, put this method into your application controller.

def ensure_proper_protocol
  request.headers['SERVER_SOFTWARE'].andand.include?('WEBrick') || super
end