diff --git a/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb b/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
index de8c5c6f9..0398931c8 100644
--- a/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ class StatusMessagesController < ApplicationController
   end
   
   def destroy
-    @status_message = StatusMessage.find(params[:id])
+    @status_message = StatusMessage.first(:conditions => {:id => params[:id]})
     @status_message.destroy
     flash[:notice] = "Successfully destroyed status message."
     redirect_to status_messages_url
   end
   
   def show
-    @status_message = StatusMessage.find(params[:id])
+    @status_message = StatusMessage.first(:conditions => {:id => params[:id]})
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/models/status_message.rb b/app/models/status_message.rb
index aae0e58d6..ce937c202 100644
--- a/app/models/status_message.rb
+++ b/app/models/status_message.rb
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ class StatusMessage
   
   
   validates_presence_of :message
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+end
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
index bbbcf7625..b2bad6ce9 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
   
   %body
     #container
-      / - if user_signed_in?
-      /   = link_to "log out", destroy_user_session_path
-      / - else
-      /   = link_to "login", new_user_session_path
+      - if user_signed_in?
+        = link_to "log out", destroy_user_session_path
+      - else
+        = link_to "login", new_user_session_path
 
       - flash.each do |name, msg|
         = content_tag :div, msg, :id => "flash_#{name}"
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 80c679be6..552d540cb 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Diaspora::Application.routes.draw do |map|
   
 
   resources :users
+  resources :status_messages
+    match 'dashboard', :to => 'status_messages#index'
   
 
   # The priority is based upon order of creation:
@@ -69,6 +71,6 @@ Diaspora::Application.routes.draw do |map|
   # Note: This route will make all actions in every controller accessible via GET requests.
   # match ':controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))'
 
-  root :to => "users#index"
+  root :to => 'status_messages#index'
 
 end
diff --git a/spec/controllers/status_messages_controller_spec.rb b/spec/controllers/status_messages_controller_spec.rb
index c53d5a631..00c920a88 100644
--- a/spec/controllers/status_messages_controller_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/controllers/status_messages_controller_spec.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
  
 describe StatusMessagesController do
-  fixtures :all
+  before do
+    #TODO(dan) Mocking Warden; this is a temp fix
+    request.env['warden'] = mock_model(Warden, :authenticate => @user, :authenticate! => @user)
+    StatusMessage.create(:message => "yodels.")
+  end
+
+  #fixtures :all
   render_views
   
   it "index action should render index template" do
@@ -28,13 +34,13 @@ describe StatusMessagesController do
   
   it "destroy action should destroy model and redirect to index action" do
     status_message = StatusMessage.first
-    delete :destroy, :id => status_message
+    delete :destroy, :id => status_message.id
     response.should redirect_to(status_messages_url)
-    StatusMessage.exists?(status_message.id).should be_false
+    StatusMessage.first(:conditions => {:id => status_message.id }).nil?.should be true
   end
   
   it "show action should render show template" do
-    get :show, :id => StatusMessage.first
+    get :show, :id => StatusMessage.first.id
     response.should render_template(:show)
   end
 end
diff --git a/spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb b/spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb
index 1718c345a..6805b99d6 100644
--- a/spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
  
 describe UsersController do
-  #render_views
-  #fixtures here?
+  before do
+    #TODO(dan) Mocking Warden; this is a temp fix
+    request.env['warden'] = mock_model(Warden, :authenticate => @user, :authenticate! => @user)
+  end
+  render_views
+  #fixtures :all
   
   it 'should, after logging in redirect to the dashboard page' do
     pending
diff --git a/spec/models/status_message_spec.rb b/spec/models/status_message_spec.rb
index 621f49d27..87f7455ba 100644
--- a/spec/models/status_message_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/status_message_spec.rb
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
 
 describe StatusMessage do
-  it "should have a message and an owner" do
+  it "should have a message" do
     n = StatusMessage.new
     n.valid?.should be false
     n.message = "wales"
     n.valid?.should be true
   end
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+end
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index 341d78949..c45a3abfd 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -21,11 +21,12 @@ Rspec.configure do |config|
   config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"
     config.before(:each) do
       Mongoid.master.collections.select { |c| c.name != 'system.indexes' }.each(&:drop)  
+
     end
   
   
   # If you're not using ActiveRecord, or you'd prefer not to run each of your
   # examples within a transaction, comment the following line or assign false
   # instead of true.
-  config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
+  config.use_transactional_fixtures = false
 end