From 015cc9e451fab036b2c9315ff9f1e9b8f31a1064 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: danielgrippi <danielgrippi@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:21:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] actually fix specs/cucumber

---
 app/models/signed_retraction.rb | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/models/signed_retraction.rb b/app/models/signed_retraction.rb
index d2aa2e154..44fdd7ba7 100644
--- a/app/models/signed_retraction.rb
+++ b/app/models/signed_retraction.rb
@@ -18,8 +18,13 @@ class SignedRetraction
                 :target_author_signature,
                 :sender
 
+  #NOTE(fix this hack -- go through the app and make sure we only call RelayableRetraction in a unified way)
   def author
-    sender.person
+    if sender.is_a?(User)
+      sender.person
+    else
+      sender
+    end
   end
 
   def signable_accessors