Make a stranger that you receive a comment from visible

app/models/user.rb

@@ -9,10 +9,12 @@ class User
   key :friend_ids, Array
   key :pending_request_ids, Array
   key :visible_post_ids, Array
+  key :visible_person_ids, Array
 
   one :person, :class_name => 'Person', :foreign_key => :owner_id
 
   many :friends, :in => :friend_ids, :class_name => 'Person'
+  many :visible_people, :in => :visible_person_ids, :class_name => 'Person' # One of these needs to go
   many :pending_requests, :in => :pending_request_ids, :class_name => 'Request'
   many :raw_visible_posts, :in => :visible_post_ids, :class_name => 'Post'
 
@@ -197,6 +199,8 @@ class User
 
     elsif object.is_a?(Comment) 
       object.person = Diaspora::Parser.parse_or_find_person_from_xml( xml ).save if object.person.nil?
+      self.visible_people << object.person
+      self.save
       Rails.logger.debug("The person parsed from comment xml is #{object.person.inspect}") unless object.person.nil?
       object.person.save
     Rails.logger.debug("From: #{object.person.inspect}") if object.person
@@ -244,7 +248,8 @@ class User
   def visible_person_by_id( id )
     id = id.to_id
     return self.person if id == self.person.id
-    friends.detect{|x| x.id == id }
+    result = friends.detect{|x| x.id == id }
+    result = visible_people.detect{|x| x.id == id } unless result
   end
 
   def group_by_id( id )

spec/models/user/receive_spec.rb

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ describe User do
   end
 
   describe 'comments' do
-    it 'should correctly marshal to the downstream user' do
+    it 'should correctly marshal a stranger for the downstream user' do
       
       friend_users(@user, @group, @user3, @group3)
       post = @user.post :status_message, :message => "hello", :to => @group.id
@@ -147,6 +147,8 @@ describe User do
       @user.receive comment.to_diaspora_xml
       @user.reload
 
+      commenter_id = @user2.person.id
+
       @user2.person.delete
       @user2.delete
       comment_id = comment.id
@@ -160,6 +162,7 @@ describe User do
       new_comment.person.should_not be_nil
       new_comment.person.profile.should_not be_nil
       
+      @user3.visible_person_by_id(commenter_id).should_not be_nil
     end
   end
 end