passing params to the launcher gem

config/environments/production.rb

@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ Rails.application.configure do
   # Use default logging formatter so that PID and timestamp are not suppressed.
   config.log_formatter = ::Logger::Formatter.new
 
+  # rails runs over http in production. Turning OpenSSL verify off to skip oauth2 verification of certs. This is done on nginx level
+  OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
+
   # Use a different logger for distributed setups.
   # require 'syslog/logger'
   # config.logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(Syslog::Logger.new 'app-name')