Persist shouts.

app/controllers/dashboards_controller.rb

@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 class DashboardsController < ApplicationController
+  def show
+    @shout = Shout.new
+  end
 end

app/controllers/shouts_controller.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+class ShoutsController < ApplicationController
+  def create
+    shout = current_user.shouts.new(params[:shout])
+    shout.save
+    redirect_to dashboard_path, notice: "Shouted!"
+  end
+end

app/models/shout.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+class Shout < ActiveRecord::Base
+  belongs_to :user
+end

app/models/user.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 class User < ActiveRecord::Base
   include Clearance::User
+  has_many :shouts
 end

app/views/dashboards/show.html.erb

@@ -1 +1,7 @@
 <h1>Dashboard</h1>
+Welcome <%= current_user.email %> - <%= link_to "Sign out", sign_out_path, method: :delete %>
+
+<%= form_for(@shout) do |form| %>
+  <%= form.text_field :body, placeholder: "Shout here" %>
+  <%= form.submit "Shout!" %>
+<% end %>

config/routes.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 Shouter::Application.routes.draw do
   root to: "welcome#index"
-  resource :dashboard
+  resource :dashboard, only: [:show]
+  resources :shouts, only: [:create]
 end

db/migrate/20120312143222_create_shouts.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+class CreateShouts < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def change
+    create_table :shouts do |t|
+      t.belongs_to :user
+      t.text :body
+
+      t.timestamps
+    end
+    add_index :shouts, :user_id
+  end
+end

db/schema.rb

@@ -11,7 +11,16 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended to check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20120312134910) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20120312143222) do
+
+  create_table "shouts", :force => true do |t|
+    t.integer  "user_id"
+    t.text     "body"
+    t.datetime "created_at", :null => false
+    t.datetime "updated_at", :null => false
+  end
+
+  add_index "shouts", ["user_id"], :name => "index_shouts_on_user_id"
 
   create_table "users", :force => true do |t|
     t.string   "email"

test/fixtures/shouts.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Read about fixtures at http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Fixtures.html
+
+one:
+  user: 
+  body: MyText
+
+two:
+  user: 
+  body: MyText

test/unit/shout_test.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+require 'test_helper'
+
+class ShoutTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+  # test "the truth" do
+  #   assert true
+  # end
+end