Faraday::SSLError
SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed
In recent memory, this is easily the most frustrating error I've had to troubleshoot. I needed SSL to work so that I could establish secure communication between Salesforce and my Rails app on Heroku. Unfortunately, neither Heroku's sample Ruby (off Rails) app nor general OmniAuth documentation seemed to give any insight into the error or how to resolve it.
Piecing together bits of knowledge gleaned from Google searches, I eventually arrived at the following solution for Rails development on Windows 8:
- Download root certificates in PEM format
- Set an environment variable called CA_FILE, pointing to the downloaded PEM file
- Create an omniauth.rb initializer file, as suggested by OmniAuth
- Specify the :client_options hash value for the :salesforce provider, as shown below
I know I'm going to run into this error again in the future, and hopefully this blog post will help me and hopefully others resolve the problem in the most secure and supportable means available.
