Localhost

This gem provides a convenient API for generating per-user self-signed root certificates.

Motivation

HTTP/2 requires SSL in web browsers. If you want to use HTTP/2 for development (and you should), you need to start using URLs like https://localhost:8080. In most cases, this requires adding a self-signed certificate to your certificate store (e.g. Keychain on macOS), and storing the private key for the web-server to use.

I wanted to provide a server-agnostic way of doing this, primarily because I think it makes sense to minimise the amount of junky self-signed keys you add to your certificate store for localhost.

Usage

Please see the project documentation.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to this project.

1. Fork it.
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature).
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature').
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature).
5. Create new Pull Request.

See Also

• Falcon — Uses Localhost::Authority to provide HTTP/2 with minimal configuration.
• Puma — Supports Localhost::Authority to provide self-signed HTTP for local development.