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app/logical/anonymous_user.rb

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+# This is a proxy class to make various nil checks unnecessary
+class AnonymousUser
+  def id
+    nil
+  end
+
+  def level
+    0
+  end
+
+  def comment_threshold
+    0
+  end
+  
+  def created_at
+    Time.now
+  end
+  
+  def updated_at
+    Time.now
+  end
+  
+  def name
+    "Anonymous"
+  end
+
+  def pretty_name
+    "Anonymous"
+  end
+
+  def is_anonymous?
+    true
+  end
+  
+  def has_mail?
+    false
+  end
+  
+  def has_forum_been_updated?
+    false
+  end
+
+  def has_permission?(obj, foreign_key = :user_id)
+    false
+  end
+
+  def ban
+    false
+  end
+  
+  def always_resize_images?
+    false
+  end
+  
+  def show_samples?
+    true
+  end
+
+  def tag_subscriptions
+    []
+  end
+  
+  def upload_limit
+    0
+  end
+  
+  def base_upload_limit
+    0
+  end
+
+  def uploaded_tags
+    ""
+  end
+  
+  def uploaded_tags_with_types
+    []
+  end
+  
+  def recent_tags
+    ""
+  end
+  
+  def recent_tags_with_types
+    []
+  end
+
+  def can_upload?
+    false
+  end
+  
+  def can_comment?
+    false
+  end
+  
+  def can_remove_from_pools?
+    false
+  end
+  
+  %w(banned privileged contributor janitor moderator admin).each do |name, value|
+    normalized_name = name.downcase.gsub(/ /, "_")
+
+    define_method("is_#{normalized_name}?") do
+      false
+    end
+  end
+end