Chatter is an enterprise social network and collaboration environment. Force.com exposes various useful information from Chatter such as users, organizations, groups, feed-items through APIs. Using this information, we can build a proof-of-concept dashboard which will show a user’s or organization’s feed in real-time. Real-time dashboard can provide an accurate understanding of what is happening in an organization.
This tutorial expects that you are an intermediate-level web application developer and have a few weeks of experience with Rails and related ecology. This means you should be familiar with building blocks of a Rails app and terms like OAuth, REST, Callback, bundler, gem etc.