diff --git a/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb b/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e534252b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+class DashboardController < ApplicationController
+  before_filter :authenticate_user!
+
+  def index
+    @posts = Post.all
+    
+    @bookmarks = Bookmark.all
+    @status_messages = StatusMessage.all
+    @blogs = Blog.all
+    #@status_messages = @posts.select{ |x| x._type == "StatusMessage"}
+    #@blogs = @posts.select{ |x| x._type == "Blog"}
+    #@bookmarks = @posts.select{ |x| x._type == "Bookmarks"}
+  end
+end
diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index de6be7945..f58313c9b 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -1,2 +1,9 @@
 module ApplicationHelper
+  def object_path(object)
+    eval("#{object.class.to_s.underscore}_path(object)")
+  end
+
+  def object_fields(object)
+    object.attributes.keys 
+  end
 end
diff --git a/app/helpers/dashboard_helper.rb b/app/helpers/dashboard_helper.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a94ddfc2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/helpers/dashboard_helper.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+module DashboardHelper
+end
diff --git a/app/helpers/status_messages_helper.rb b/app/helpers/status_messages_helper.rb
index 147486830..4c534a685 100644
--- a/app/helpers/status_messages_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/status_messages_helper.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module StatusMessagesHelper
   def my_latest_message
     message = StatusMessage.my_newest
     unless message.nil?
-      return message.message + " " + time_ago_in_words(message.created_at) + "ago."
+      return message.message + " " + time_ago_in_words(message.created_at) + " ago."
     else
       return "No message to display."
     end
diff --git a/app/models/post.rb b/app/models/post.rb
index 72238b32d..34af94757 100644
--- a/app/models/post.rb
+++ b/app/models/post.rb
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ class Post
 
 
   before_create :set_defaults
+  #after_update :notify_friends
 
   protected
 
@@ -25,6 +26,14 @@ class Post
     self.source ||= user_email
     self.snippet ||= user_email
   end
+
+
+  #def notify_friends
+   #friends = Permissions.get_list_for(self)
+   #xml = self.to_xml_to_s
+   #friends.each{|friend| ping friend :with => xml }
+  #end
+
 end
 
 
diff --git a/app/views/dashboard/index.html.haml b/app/views/dashboard/index.html.haml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0b4a5224d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/dashboard/index.html.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+- title "Dashboard"
+
+%ul
+  - for post in @posts
+    %li
+      = render "shared/post", :post =>post
+      %br
+      %br
+
diff --git a/app/views/shared/_post.html.haml b/app/views/shared/_post.html.haml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ec4bc41e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/shared/_post.html.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+%ul
+  %h3= link_to post.class, object_path(post) 
+  - for field in object_fields(post)
+    %li= "#{field}: #{post.attributes[field]}" 
+      
diff --git a/config/initializers/inflections.rb b/config/initializers/inflections.rb
index d531b8bb8..dded445cc 100644
--- a/config/initializers/inflections.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/inflections.rb
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 
 # Add new inflection rules using the following format 
 # (all these examples are active by default):
-# ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
+ ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
 #   inflect.plural /^(ox)$/i, '\1en'
 #   inflect.singular /^(ox)en/i, '\1'
 #   inflect.irregular 'person', 'people'
 #   inflect.uncountable %w( fish sheep )
-# end
+    inflect.uncountable %w(dashboard)
+ end
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 9f7998572..81cd16e47 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ 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:
@@ -77,6 +76,6 @@ 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 => 'status_messages#index'
+  root :to => 'dashboard#index'
 
 end
diff --git a/spec/controllers/dashboard_controller_spec.rb b/spec/controllers/dashboard_controller_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..010a62677
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/controllers/dashboard_controller_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
+ 
+describe DashboardController do
+  fixtures :all
+  integrate_views
+  
+  it "index action should render index template" do
+    get :index
+    response.should render_template(:index)
+  end
+end