add a Group subclass (STI) called Homepage - a personal staging group…

… per user account, modify User model to autmoatically create the homepage

app/models/homepage.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+class Homepage < Group
+
+end

app/models/user.rb

@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 class User < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   before_create :create_profile
+
+  # Each user owns a homepage (subclass of group)
+  after_create :create_homepage
 
   has_one :profile, :dependent => :destroy
+  has_one :homepage, :dependent => :destroy
 
   has_many :memberships, :dependent => :destroy
   has_many :plain_memberships, :class_name => 'Membership',
@@ -35,5 +39,15 @@ def network
     def create_profile
       self.profile ||= Profile.new
     end
+
+    def create_homepage
+      @group = Homepage.new(:name=> self.login + "'s homepage", :description => "A personal space (homepage) of " + self.login + " where objects can be shared to or from, in various contexts such as posts, links.")
+      @group.author = self
+      @group.private = true
+      @group.save
+      @group.activate!
+      @group.join(self, true)
+      @group.activate_membership(self)
+    end
 
 end

db/migrate/008_add_type_to_groups.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+class AddTypeToGroups < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def self.up
+    add_column :groups, :type, :string
+  end
+
+  def self.down
+    remove_column :groups, :type
+  end
+end