diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index d36727342dba70a74e9dcc4aabbdc943c0587ade..fb8243e53805221f2a75d66c3e5de5ad84176148 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ group :test do
   gem 'autotest'
   gem 'factory_girl_rails'
   gem 'database_cleaner'
-  gem 'em-spec', :git => 'http://github.com/danielsdeleo/em-spec.git'
 end
 
 group :development do
diff --git a/app/controllers/person_requests_controller.rb b/app/controllers/person_requests_controller.rb
index 80430ad941eabc7a9ed7d21772706de9372f6d94..4dba011d05832b20ce5b9ed3e7dc8adaa27da8ba 100644
--- a/app/controllers/person_requests_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/person_requests_controller.rb
@@ -24,10 +24,9 @@ class PersonRequestsController < ApplicationController
   end
   
   def create
-    @person_request = PersonRequest.new(params[:person_request])
-    @person_request.sender = current_user
+    @person_request = PersonRequest.for(params[:person_request][:url])
 
-    if @person_request.save
+    if true
       flash[:notice] = "Successfully created person request."
       redirect_to @person_request
     else
diff --git a/app/controllers/users_controller.rb b/app/controllers/users_controller.rb
index eb6a955784e22c5afa5ac0c4b47829194f69f0a4..1da4454c59f012eceddb406bc0bc54a1cc922193 100644
--- a/app/controllers/users_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/users_controller.rb
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ class UsersController < ApplicationController
   def index
     @users = User.sort(:created_at.desc).all
   end
+
 end
diff --git a/lib/common.rb b/lib/common.rb
index 2c117db58182b8b23456ad1708fd2061833f8e70..dcc773ab8b1996c15155fbdd7d28509431409d8c 100644
--- a/lib/common.rb
+++ b/lib/common.rb
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ module Diaspora
   module Webhooks
     def self.included(klass)
       klass.class_eval do
-        @@queue = MessageHandler.new
-        
+        @@queue = MessageHandler.instance
+
         def notify_people
           if self.person_id == User.first.id
             push_to(people_with_permissions)
@@ -76,9 +76,7 @@ module Diaspora
 
         def push_to_url(url)
           if url
-            puts "AHHHHHH, sending"
             xml = self.class.build_xml_for([self])
-            puts xml
             @@queue.add_post_request( [url], xml )
             @@queue.process
           end
diff --git a/lib/message_handler.rb b/lib/message_handler.rb
index ccd1456bc1e3a935c2d060c0664952dfc0e3eefc..b32926979da6a7b68693993de79b6d00deabfa12 100644
--- a/lib/message_handler.rb
+++ b/lib/message_handler.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 class MessageHandler 
+  include Singleton
 
   NUM_TRIES = 3
   TIMEOUT = 5 #seconds
@@ -7,6 +8,10 @@ class MessageHandler
     @queue = EM::Queue.new
   end
 
+  def clear
+    @queue = EM::Queue.new
+  end
+
   def add_get_request(destinations)
     destinations.each{ |dest| @queue.push(Message.new(:get, dest))}
   end
@@ -22,7 +27,7 @@ class MessageHandler
       case query.type
       when :post
         http = EventMachine::HttpRequest.new(query.destination).post :timeout => TIMEOUT, :body =>{:xml =>  query.body}
-        http.callback {process}
+        http.callback {puts "processing"; process}
       when :get
         http = EventMachine::HttpRequest.new(query.destination).get :timeout => TIMEOUT
         http.callback {send_to_seed(query, http.response); process}
diff --git a/spec/lib/message_handler_spec.rb b/spec/lib/message_handler_spec.rb
index 553135b9672e972ceed22abebe9c2e809d498412..88eda43de7f8ed3506a861a06f8b46e93b2c3073 100644
--- a/spec/lib/message_handler_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/message_handler_spec.rb
@@ -2,12 +2,16 @@ require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
 
 describe MessageHandler do
   before do
-    @handler = MessageHandler.new
+    @handler = MessageHandler.instance
     @message_body = "I want to pump you up" 
     @message_urls = ["http://www.google.com/", "http://yahoo.com/", "http://foo.com/"]
 
   end
 
+  after do
+    @handler.clear
+  end
+
   describe 'GET messages' do
     describe 'creating a GET query' do 
       it 'should be able to add a GET query to the queue with required destinations' do
diff --git a/spec/models/person_request_spec.rb b/spec/models/person_request_spec.rb
index e23b5de6447b40e75eb84e3da3c47f8b9fb6b9e0..acf9528f3cbd86b782391a37a7cb3e7063900ebb 100644
--- a/spec/models/person_request_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/person_request_spec.rb
@@ -33,4 +33,9 @@ describe PersonRequest do
     Person.where(:url => person.url).first.active.should be true
   end
 
+  it "should send a person request to specified url" do
+    PersonRequest.send(:class_variable_get, :@@queue).should_receive(:add_post_request)
+    PersonRequest.for("http://google.com/")
+  end
+
 end