Fix notifications when people remove their birthday date

Some people may remove their birthday date after the notification was
sent, which then breaks the notification page for other users. Let's
just display the date when the notification was created, and not display
the users updated birthday date. When users update from date A to B it
always looks weird anyway, when we display the same new date B twice on
different days, or display two different dates for the same user.

We could remove notifications when users change or remove their
birthday, but that would be way more complex and also we usually don't
remove notifications (not even for deleted posts).

Fixes #7689

closes #7691

3 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index 1096744f0..b89f734f9 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# 0.7.2.1
+
+Fixes notifications when people remove their birthday date [#7691](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/7691)
+
 # 0.7.2.0
 
 ## Bug fixes
diff --git a/app/helpers/notifications_helper.rb b/app/helpers/notifications_helper.rb
index dd1a4cf9a..ffe10a951 100644
--- a/app/helpers/notifications_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/notifications_helper.rb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ module NotificationsHelper
             .include?(note.type)
         opts.merge!(opts_for_post(note.linked_object))
       elsif note.is_a?(Notifications::ContactsBirthday)
-        opts.merge!(opts_for_birthday(note.linked_object))
+        opts.merge!(opts_for_birthday(note))
       end
     end
     translation(target_type, opts)
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ module NotificationsHelper
     }
   end
 
-  def opts_for_birthday(person)
-    {date: locale_date(person.birthday.to_s)}
+  def opts_for_birthday(note)
+    {date: I18n.l(note.created_at, format: I18n.t("date.formats.fullmonth_day"))}
   end
 
   def notification_people_link(note, people=nil)
diff --git a/spec/helpers/notifications_helper_spec.rb b/spec/helpers/notifications_helper_spec.rb
index 356092b18..dea069ef6 100644
--- a/spec/helpers/notifications_helper_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/helpers/notifications_helper_spec.rb
@@ -123,6 +123,22 @@ describe NotificationsHelper, type: :helper do
         expect(link).to include("#{post_path(status_message)}##{comment.guid}")
       end
     end
+
+    context "for a birthday" do
+      let(:notification) { Notifications::ContactsBirthday.create(recipient: alice, target: bob.person) }
+
+      it "contains the date" do
+        bob.profile.update_attributes(birthday: Time.zone.today)
+        link = object_link(notification, notification_people_link(notification))
+        expect(link).to include(I18n.l(Time.zone.today, format: I18n.t("date.formats.fullmonth_day")))
+      end
+
+      it "doesn't break, when the person removes the birthday date" do
+        bob.profile.update_attributes(birthday: nil)
+        link = object_link(notification, notification_people_link(notification))
+        expect(link).to include(I18n.l(Time.zone.today, format: I18n.t("date.formats.fullmonth_day")))
+      end
+    end
   end
 
   describe '#display_year?' do