Get rid of SSL_CERT_FILE env entirely

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/src/ruby/bin/apis/pubsub_demo.rb b/src/ruby/bin/apis/pubsub_demo.rb
index 003e91a6b3..983be6e823 100755
--- a/src/ruby/bin/apis/pubsub_demo.rb
+++ b/src/ruby/bin/apis/pubsub_demo.rb
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 # pubsub_demo demos accesses the Google PubSub API via its gRPC interface
 #
 # $ GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<path_to_service_account_key_file> \
-#   SSL_CERT_FILE=<path/to/ssl/certs> \
 #   path/to/pubsub_demo.rb \
 #   [--action=<chosen_demo_action> ]
 #
@@ -55,18 +54,9 @@ require 'google/protobuf/empty'
 require 'tech/pubsub/proto/pubsub'
 require 'tech/pubsub/proto/pubsub_services'
 
-# loads the certificates used to access the test server securely.
-def load_prod_cert
-  fail 'could not find a production cert' if ENV['SSL_CERT_FILE'].nil?
-  p "loading prod certs from #{ENV['SSL_CERT_FILE']}"
-  File.open(ENV['SSL_CERT_FILE']) do |f|
-    return f.read
-  end
-end
-
 # creates a SSL Credentials from the production certificates.
 def ssl_creds
-  GRPC::Core::ChannelCredentials.new(load_prod_cert)
+  GRPC::Core::ChannelCredentials.new()
 end
 
 # Builds the metadata authentication update proc.