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I woke up at 3am this morning and had no luck getting back to sleep. On the upside, I’m eating guacamole and cracked pepper crackers. MmMmmmm… Even my dog gets better sleep at night than me these days, and he sleeps all day as well.

I’m not sure if it’s insomnia keeping me awake, or I’m simply enjoying what I’m doing these days. I find my thoughts wondering to msgpad at all times of the day. It’s a unique experience and one that I hope I can keep going. I’m fascinated by Ruby, and the Ruby community also. Consider the following Ruby code:

class ActionController::TestResponse
def xhr?
self.headers['Content-Type'] =~ /javascript/
end
end

The code above is extending ActionController::TestResponse which has been defined somewhere else by Ruby On Rails, with an extra method called xhr?. I defined the above as what I saw as a natural extension to the original class. The method determines if the respone from a get/post request in a test was part of an AJAX call.