Have you ever wanted to test your API output without those pesky assert_select error messages? Well now you can!
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8173
The patch has been sitting there quietly with no comment for a couple months now. I think it should be pretty easy to apply. It won't affect standard HTML output or even XHTML given IE's inability understand the standard application/xhtml+xml, and even if HTML was served as HTML it would only raise warnings on invalid markup.
Thoughts?