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I got sick of every time I make an Http request validating that the response was a success. I did a lot of:

if response.class == Net::HTTPOK

or

if response.is_a? Net::HTTPSuccess

I wanted something a little prettier so I came up with the following. I don't write a lot of class extensions like this so I wanted some input.

require 'net/http'
class Net::HTTPResponse
  def success?
    return false if ! self.is_a? Net::HTTPSuccess
    return true
  end
end

Now once the file is included I can say:

if response.success?
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  • \$\begingroup\$ Just about every alternative to Net::HTTP has a better interface. Don't feel compelled to use it. \$\endgroup\$ Mar 29, 2018 at 16:29

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Though your solution would work, I would have gone for something like this:

class Net::HTTPResponse
  def success?
    false
  end
end

class Net::HTTPSuccess
  def success?
    true
  end
end

If you do keep your solution, you could simplify it to:

class Net::HTTPResponse
  def success?
    self.is_a? Net::HTTPSuccess
  end
end
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  • \$\begingroup\$ A short comment about what like this or could simplify it to mean would be great ;-) \$\endgroup\$
    – t3chb0t
    Mar 29, 2018 at 17:44

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