diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb
index 60a2cccdc534bf05b9dab60193ba7243a29baa6a..56972827916a3bce0f1ed6f45c2bd1e556c358d4 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb
@@ -31,10 +31,17 @@ module ActionDispatch # :nodoc:
   #    end
   #  end
   class Response
-    attr_accessor :request, :header
+    # The request that the response is responding to.
+    attr_accessor :request
+
+    # The HTTP status code.
     attr_reader :status
+
     attr_writer :sending_file
 
+    # Get and set headers for this response.
+    attr_accessor :header
+    
     alias_method :headers=, :header=
     alias_method :headers,  :header
 
@@ -49,9 +56,12 @@ class Response
     # If a character set has been defined for this response (see charset=) then
     # the character set information will also be included in the content type
     # information.
-    attr_accessor :charset
     attr_reader   :content_type
 
+    # The charset of the response. HTML wants to know the encoding of the
+    # content you're giving them, so we need to send that along.
+    attr_accessor :charset
+
     CONTENT_TYPE = "Content-Type".freeze
     SET_COOKIE   = "Set-Cookie".freeze
     LOCATION     = "Location".freeze
@@ -93,6 +103,7 @@ def closed?
       end
     end
 
+    # The underlying body, as a streamable object.
     attr_reader :stream
 
     def initialize(status = 200, header = {}, body = [])
@@ -142,6 +153,7 @@ def status=(status)
       @status = Rack::Utils.status_code(status)
     end
 
+    # Sets the HTTP content type.
     def content_type=(content_type)
       @content_type = content_type.to_s
     end
@@ -216,11 +228,13 @@ def delete_cookie(key, value={})
       ::Rack::Utils.delete_cookie_header!(header, key, value)
     end
 
+    # The location header we'll be responding with.
     def location
       headers[LOCATION]
     end
     alias_method :redirect_url, :location
 
+    # Sets the location header we'll be responding with.
     def location=(url)
       headers[LOCATION] = url
     end
@@ -229,11 +243,13 @@ def close
       stream.close if stream.respond_to?(:close)
     end
 
+    # Turns the Response into a Rack-compatible array of the status, headers,
+    # and body.
     def to_a
       rack_response @status, @header.to_hash
     end
     alias prepare! to_a
-    alias to_ary   to_a # For implicit splat on 1.9.2
+    alias to_ary   to_a
 
     # Returns the response cookies, converted to a Hash of (name => value) pairs
     #