Change the form_for not to need a message passed, and adding it to the home page

app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ class StatusMessagesController < ApplicationController
   before_filter :authenticate_user!
 
   def index
-    @status_message = StatusMessage.new
     @status_messages = StatusMessage.sort(:created_at.desc).all
     
 

app/views/dashboard/index.html.haml

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 %h1 your network stream
+= render "status_messages/new_status_message"
 %ul#stream
   - for post in @posts
     = render type_partial(post), :post => post

app/views/status_messages/_new_status_message.haml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-= form_for status_message, :remote => true do |f|
+= form_for StatusMessage.new, :remote => true do |f|
   = f.error_messages
   %p
     /= f.label :message