From 2388237174d57605792e8c320c5e34dfe722eaea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raphael <raphael@joindiaspora.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:36:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] RS, IZ; Replace type_name method with object.class.to_s

---
 app/models/retraction.rb | 19 ++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/models/retraction.rb b/app/models/retraction.rb
index 2e9a29f77..7683e8ccb 100644
--- a/app/models/retraction.rb
+++ b/app/models/retraction.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ class Retraction
     retraction = self.new
     retraction.post_id= object.id
     retraction.person_id = person_id_from(object)
-    retraction.type = self.type_name(object)
+    retraction.type = object.class.to_s
     retraction
   end
 
@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ class Retraction
   attr_accessor :type
 
   def perform
-    self.type.constantize.destroy(self.post_id)
+    begin
+      self.type.constantize.destroy(self.post_id)
+    rescue NameError
+      Rails.logger.info("Retraction for unknown type recieved.")
+    end
   end
 
   def self.person_id_from(object)
@@ -30,15 +34,4 @@ class Retraction
     end
   end
 
-
-  def self.type_name(object)
-    if object.is_a? Post
-      object.class
-    elsif object.is_a? Person
-      'Person'
-    else
-      'Clowntown'
-    end
-  end
-
 end