From 1e9def65277125f23739be034abd4059a42d2b87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Nunemaker <nunemaker@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 13:03:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed friendship_exists? which was throwing mash error. Now
 returns object if object is not mashable.

---
 History                          |  1 +
 examples/friendship_existance.rb | 13 +++++++++++++
 lib/twitter/request.rb           |  4 +++-
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 examples/friendship_existance.rb

diff --git a/History b/History
index a29a19dc3..2147de700 100644
--- a/History
+++ b/History
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 0.5.1 - April 5, 2009
 * 1 minor change
   * Added data error hash returned from twitter to a few of the exceptions to help with debugging
+  * Fixed friendship_exists?. Was throwing mash stringify keys error because it was returning true or false instead of hash or array.
   
 0.5.0 - April 3, 2009
 * 1 major rewrite for OAuth
diff --git a/examples/friendship_existance.rb b/examples/friendship_existance.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c3d5a2c00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/friendship_existance.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib', 'twitter')
+require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'helpers', 'config_store')
+require 'pp'
+
+config = ConfigStore.new("#{ENV['HOME']}/.twitter")
+
+oauth = Twitter::OAuth.new(config['token'], config['secret'])
+oauth.authorize_from_access(config['atoken'], config['asecret'])
+
+client = Twitter::Base.new(oauth)
+
+puts client.friendship_exists?('jnunemaker', 'orderedlist')
+puts client.friendship_exists?('jnunemaker', 'biz')
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/twitter/request.rb b/lib/twitter/request.rb
index 9efc60637..e8717c333 100644
--- a/lib/twitter/request.rb
+++ b/lib/twitter/request.rb
@@ -74,8 +74,10 @@ def parse(response)
       def mash(obj)
         if obj.is_a?(Array)
           obj.map { |item| Mash.new(item) }
-        else
+        elsif obj.is_a?(Hash)
           Mash.new(obj)
+        else
+          obj
         end
       end