person now has a url, and they cant add themselves any longer.... you need to add a url to your old development user, and we need to set it in the field

app/models/friend.rb

@@ -1,23 +1,4 @@
 class Friend < Person
 
-  xml_accessor :url
 
-  key :url, String
-
-  validates_presence_of :url
-  validates_format_of :url, :with =>
-     /^(https?):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,5})?(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/.*)?$/ix
-    
-  #validate {self.url ! = User.first.url}
-
-  before_validation :clean_url
-
-  protected
-
-  def clean_url
-    if self.url
-      self.url = 'http://' + self.url unless self.url.match('http://' || 'https://')
-      self.url = self.url + '/' if self.url[-1,1] != '/'
-    end
-  end
 end

app/models/person.rb

@@ -3,15 +3,34 @@ class Person
   include ROXML
 
   xml_accessor :email
+  xml_accessor :url
  
   key :email, String
+  key :url, String, :unique => true
   
   one :profile, :class_name => 'Profile', :foreign_key => :person_id
   many :posts, :class_name => 'Post', :foreign_key => :person_id
 
+  timestamps!
+
+  validates_presence_of :url
+  validates_format_of :url, :with =>
+     /^(https?):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,5})?(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/.*)?$/ix
   validates_presence_of :email
 
+  before_validation :clean_url
+ 
   def real_name
     self.profile.first_name + " " + self.profile.last_name
   end
-end
+
+  protected
+
+  def clean_url
+    self.url ||= "http://localhost:3000/" if self.class == User
+    if self.url
+      self.url = 'http://' + self.url unless self.url.match('http://' || 'https://')
+      self.url = self.url + '/' if self.url[-1,1] != '/'
+    end
+  end
+ end

app/models/user.rb

@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
 class User < Person
   include MongoMapper::Document
 
-  timestamps!
-  
-  # Include default devise modules. Others available are:
-  # :token_authenticatable, :confirmable, :lockable and :timeoutable
   devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
          :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable
          
   
+
   def comment(text, options = {})
     raise "Comment on what, motherfucker?" unless options[:on]
     Comment.new(:person_id => self.id, :text => text, :post => options[:on]).save

spec/factories.rb

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ end
 
 Factory.define :friend do |f|
   f.email 'max@max.com'
-  f.url  'http://max.com/'
+  f.sequence(:url)  {|n|"http://max#{n}.com/"}
   f.profile Profile.new( :first_name => "Robert", :last_name => "Grimm" )
 end
 

spec/models/post_spec.rb

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ describe Post do
  
   describe "stream" do 
     before do
-      @owner = Factory.create(:user, :email => "robert@grimm.com")
+      @owner = Factory.build(:user)
       @friend_one = Factory.create(:friend, :email => "some@dudes.com")
       @friend_two = Factory.create(:friend, :email => "other@dudes.com")