Marry Capybara with SSL-enabled applications

Occasionally, you have to talk to APIs via HTTPS that use a custom certificate or a misconfigured certificate chain (like missing an intermediate certificate).

Using RestClient will then raise RestClient::SSLCertificateNotVerified errors, or wh...

If your requests blow up in Ruby or CURL, the server you're connecting to might only support requests with older SSL/TLS versions.

You might get an error like: OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect SYSCALL returned=5 errno=0 state=unknown state

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Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile:

gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0'
gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
gem 'capybara', '< 2' # capybara 2+ requires Rails 3
gem 'mime-types', '< 2' # dependeny of capybara

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Here is how to start your Rails application to accept both HTTP and HTTPS in development.

1. gem install passenger

2. Create a [self-signed SSL certificate](https://makandracards.com/makandra/15901-howto-create-a-self-signed-certificate...

This card describes a Cucumber step that lets you say:

When I perform basic authentication as "username/password" and I visit the admin area

The path component ("... the admin area") is parsed through your path_to helper in `features/s...

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.

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

We are using Spring in our tests for sequential test execution but not for parallel test execution. And Rails requires you to set the config.cache_classes = false if you are using Spring in tests.

With our setup, this would r...

Sometimes the need arises for SSL in local development. We have guides for different webservers, this one is for puma.

0. make sure [mkcert is installed](/makandra/15901-howto-create-...

Download buttons can be difficult to test, especially with Selenium. Depending on browser, user settings and response headers, one of three things can happen:

• The browser shows a "Save as..." dialog. Since it is a modal dialog, we can no longer...