From 0a3277d3069df0228019d9abf33b761ced24a67d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ilya <ilya@laptop.(none)>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:51:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] maybe the instantiate method will help

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

diff --git a/app/models/user.rb b/app/models/user.rb
index 7f4ea5c98..9c88b8462 100644
--- a/app/models/user.rb
+++ b/app/models/user.rb
@@ -297,7 +297,12 @@ class User
   end
 
   ###Helpers############
-
+  def self.instantiate( opts = {} )
+    opts[:person][:email] = opts[:email]
+    opts[:person][:serialized_key] = generate_key
+    User.create( opts)
+  end
+	 	
   def terse_url
     terse= self.url.gsub(/https?:\/\//, '')
     terse.gsub!(/www\./, '')