# SSL questions

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ssl-questions/137512>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 13, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ssl-questions/137512 "2008-05-13T21:53:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisolsen)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ssl-questions/137512/1 "2008-05-13T21:53:53Z")

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This is my first app that uses SSL so I have some n00b questions.

1. Do I need an SSL certificate on my development machine to work with  
Paypal and other services that offer testing environments?

2. What do you have to do when the app’s clients all have a separate  
subdomain?

3. I realize that you can generate your own ssl CSR, but it will be  
flagged as unauthenticated. Does anyone do this? If not where do you  
get your CSR from. I have heard bad things about godaddy. Does  
anyone have any experience with them? Then there are places like  
verisign that have the large fees.

4. The only decent article that I have been able to find is  
[http://www.buildingwebapps.com/articles/8-using-ssl-in-rails-applications](http://www.buildingwebapps.com/articles/8-using-ssl-in-rails-applications).  
Unfortunately, there is no notes on working with it on the dev machine  
with mongrel. Does anyone know of any other articles?

Thanks for the help.