What is the format and location of soap/property using Soap4r in Rails 2.3.x?

Question

I've been trying to figure out how to consume a SOAP service in Rails using certs, but currently my question is much more basic. In other tutorials I've seen a bunch of references to a property file called "soap/property" I just don't understand what that is (a standard text properties file?) and where it goes (/lib/soap/property?)

And, in a test file who do I determine if my properties are loading correctly?

require 'soap/wsdlDriver'

# would be great if I knew what the soap properties where here....

driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new('https://somepath?wsdl')

# this actually crashes with a 'sslv3 alert bad certificate' which is the real problem...