Category Topics are no longer invisible, they are pinned.

app/models/category.rb

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
     topics = Topic
                .select("COUNT(*)")
                .where("topics.category_id = categories.id")
+               .where("categories.topic_id <> topics.id")
                .visible
 
     topics_year = topics.created_since(1.year.ago).to_sql
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
   end
 
   after_create do
-    topic = Topic.create!(title: I18n.t("category.topic_prefix", category: name), user: user, visible: false)
+    topic = Topic.create!(title: I18n.t("category.topic_prefix", category: name), user: user, pinned_at: Time.now)
 
     post_contents = I18n.t("category.post_template", replace_paragraph: I18n.t("category.replace_paragraph"))
     topic.posts.create!(raw: post_contents, user: user)

spec/components/category_list_spec.rb

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ describe CategoryList do
       end
 
       it "should contain our topic" do
-        category.featured_topics.should == [topic]
+        category.featured_topics.include?(topic).should be_true
       end
     end
 

spec/components/topic_query_spec.rb

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ describe TopicQuery do
 
   context 'categorized' do
     let(:category) { Fabricate(:category) }
+    let(:topic_category) { category.topic }
     let!(:topic_no_cat) { Fabricate(:topic) }
     let!(:topic_in_cat) { Fabricate(:topic, category: category) }
 
@@ -55,16 +56,17 @@ describe TopicQuery do
     end
 
     it "returns the topic with a category when filtering by category" do
-      topic_query.list_category(category).topics.should == [topic_in_cat]
+      topic_query.list_category(category).topics.should == [topic_category, topic_in_cat]
     end
 
-    it "returns nothing when filtering by another category" do
-      topic_query.list_category(Fabricate(:category, name: 'new cat')).topics.should be_blank
+    it "returns only the topic category when filtering by another category" do
+      another_category = Fabricate(:category, name: 'new cat')
+      topic_query.list_category(another_category).topics.should == [another_category.topic]
     end
 
     describe '#list_new_in_category' do
-      it 'returns only the categorized topic' do
-        topic_query.list_new_in_category(category).topics.should == [topic_in_cat]
+      it 'returns the topic category and the categorized topic' do
+        topic_query.list_new_in_category(category).topics.should == [topic_in_cat, topic_category]
       end
     end
   end

spec/models/category_spec.rb

@@ -99,8 +99,12 @@ describe Category do
       @topic.category.should == @category
     end
 
-    it 'is an invisible topic' do
-      @topic.should_not be_visible
+    it 'is a visible topic' do
+      @topic.should be_visible
+    end
+
+    it 'is pinned' do
+      @topic.pinned_at.should be_present
     end
 
     it 'is an undeletable topic' do