Allow author to be optional by overriding author_required?

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/app/models/refinery/blog/post.rb b/app/models/refinery/blog/post.rb
index d05cb14..9e69162 100644
--- a/app/models/refinery/blog/post.rb
+++ b/app/models/refinery/blog/post.rb
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ module Refinery
 
       validates :title, :presence => true, :uniqueness => true
       validates :body,  :presence => true
-      validates :published_at, :author, :presence => true
+      validates :published_at, :presence => true
+      validates :author, :presence => true, if: :author_required?
       validates :source_url, :url => { :if => 'Refinery::Blog.validate_source_url',
                                       :update => true,
                                       :allow_nil => true,
@@ -31,6 +32,11 @@ module Refinery
       class Translation
         is_seo_meta
       end
+      
+      # Override this to disable required authors
+      def author_required?
+        true
+      end
 
       # If custom_url or title changes tell friendly_id to regenerate slug when
       # saving record