The link you posted talks about validating the SSL Certificates used to make the Sql Connection to validate that a "man in the middle" attack cannot get your Sql UserName/Password.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack

It is your application that needs to validate the SSL Certificate to validate it is coming from SqlAzure. I don't see how changing the hostname and not requiring security will keep you safe.

Securely Connecting to SQL Azure
I am a newbie to the Ruby on Rails but stuck at this interesting situation :

I have three Models with me :


User
Company
Project


I want to relate them in the following way :


Company has_many Users  
Users belong_to Company

Implemented via company_id column in USERS table

User.Company or Company.Users works fine.





Project has_and_belongs_to_many Users   
Users has_and_belongs_to_many Project

Implemented via has_and_belongs_to_many relation using in projetcs_users table

Project.Users or User.Projects works fine.




The real problem comes when I want them to join as following as well : 


Company belong_to Owners  (:through => User)
Owner has_one Company

---A company can have multiple owners but one user can own just one company. He can't be owner of multiple companies.

---A user may or may not be owner of a company but always belong to some company.
---A user cannot be part of two companies.
Project has_one Project_manager  (:through => User)
Project_manager belongs_to Projects

---A Project can have just one Project_manager but one can be project manager of multiple projects.


I am not able to figure out how the relationship should be defined in the Models. Also what should be the table structure for all three models.

My objective is to achieve :


Company.Owners

It can be done by : 

@owner = User.find(Company.owner_id) 
Project.Project_manager

It can be done by : 

@Project_manager = User.find(Project.project_manager_id)


But don't want it that way to work !!

Rest is working perfectly fine for me.
