diff --git a/app/components/requests-item.coffee b/app/components/requests-item.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a80b0d74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/components/requests-item.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+`import Ember from 'ember'`
+`import config from 'travis/config/environment'`
+
+RequestsItemComponent = Ember.Component.extend
+  classNames: ['tile', 'tile--jobs', 'row']
+  classNameBindings: ['requestClass']
+  tagName: 'li'
+
+  requestClass: (->
+    if @get('request.isAccepted')
+      'accepted'
+    else
+      'rejected'
+  ).property('content.isAccepted')
+
+  type: (->
+    if @get('request.isPullRequest')
+      'pull_request'
+    else
+      'push'
+  ).property('request.isPullRequest')
+
+  status: (->
+    if @get('request.isAccepted')
+      'Accepted'
+    else
+      'Rejected'
+  ).property('request.isAccepted')
+
+  message: (->
+    message = @get('request.message')
+    if config.pro && message == "private repository"
+      ''
+    else if !message
+      'Build created successfully '
+    else
+      message
+  ).property('request.message')
+
+
+`export default RequestsItemComponent`
diff --git a/app/controllers/repo.coffee b/app/controllers/repo.coffee
index dd8ed09f..6ae60aa3 100644
--- a/app/controllers/repo.coffee
+++ b/app/controllers/repo.coffee
@@ -2,12 +2,11 @@
 `import { githubRepo } from 'travis/utils/urls'`
 
 Controller = Ember.Controller.extend
-  needs: ['repos', 'currentUser', 'build', 'request', 'job']
+  needs: ['repos', 'currentUser', 'build', 'job']
   currentUserBinding: 'controllers.currentUser.model'
 
   build: Ember.computed.alias('controllers.build.build')
   job: Ember.computed.alias('controllers.job.job')
-  request: Ember.computed.alias('controllers.request.model')
 
   slug: (-> @get('repo.slug') ).property('repo.slug')
   isLoading: (-> @get('repo.isLoading') ).property('repo.isLoading')
diff --git a/app/controllers/request.coffee b/app/controllers/request.coffee
deleted file mode 100644
index 59173b06..00000000
--- a/app/controllers/request.coffee
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-`import Ember from 'ember'`
-
-Controller = Ember.ObjectController.extend
-  requestClass: (->
-    if @get('content.isAccepted')
-      'accepted'
-    else
-      'rejected'
-  ).property('content.isAccepted')
-
-  type: (->
-    if @get('isPullRequest')
-      'pull_request'
-    else
-      'push'
-  ).property('isPullRequest')
-
-  status: (->
-    if @get('isAccepted')
-      'Accepted'
-    else
-      'Rejected'
-  ).property('isAccepted')
-
-  message: (->
-    message = @get('model.message')
-    if @config.pro && message == "private repository"
-      ''
-    else if !message
-      'Build created successfully '
-    else
-      message
-  ).property('model.message')
-
-`export default Controller`
diff --git a/app/templates/components/requests-item.hbs b/app/templates/components/requests-item.hbs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a931f716
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/templates/components/requests-item.hbs
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<div class="tile-status tile-status--job">
+  <span class="icon icon--job {{requestClass}}"></span>
+</div>
+
+<p class="jobs-item requests-time column">{{format-time request.created_at}}</p>
+
+<p class="jobs-item requests-branch column">
+  <span class="icon icon--grey {{type}}"></span>
+  {{#if request.isPullRequest}}
+    <strong>#{{request.pullRequestNumber}}</strong>
+  {{else}}
+    <strong>{{request.branchName}}</strong>
+  {{/if}}
+  {{github-commit-link request.repo.slug request.commit.sha}}
+</p>
+
+<p class="jobs-item requests-commit column">
+  {{{format-message request.commit.message short="true" repoBinding=request.build.repo}}}
+  </p>
+
+<p class="jobs-item requests-build column">
+  {{#if request.build}}
+    <span class="icon icon-hash"></span>
+    {{#link-to "build" request.build}}
+      {{request.build.number}}{{/link-to}}
+  {{else}}
+    -
+  {{/if}}
+</p>
+<p class="jobs-item requests-message column">{{message}}</p>
diff --git a/app/templates/requests.hbs b/app/templates/requests.hbs
index d0050a7c..14a0bce2 100644
--- a/app/templates/requests.hbs
+++ b/app/templates/requests.hbs
@@ -7,38 +7,7 @@
 {{/if}}
 
 <ul class="requests">
-  {{#each controller itemController="request"}}
-    <li {{bind-attr class=":tile :tile--jobs :row requestClass" }}>
-      <div class="tile-status tile-status--job">
-        <span {{bind-attr class=":icon :icon--job requestClass"}}></span>
-      </div>
-
-      <p class="jobs-item requests-time column">{{format-time created_at}}</p>
-
-      <p class="jobs-item requests-branch column">
-        <span {{bind-attr class=":icon :icon--grey type"}}></span>
-        {{#if isPullRequest}}
-          <strong>#{{pullRequestNumber}}</strong>
-        {{else}}
-          <strong>{{branchName}}</strong>
-        {{/if}}
-        {{github-commit-link repo.slug commit.sha}}
-      </p>
-
-      <p class="jobs-item requests-commit column">
-        {{{format-message commit.message short="true" repoBinding=build.repo}}}
-        </p>
-
-      <p class="jobs-item requests-build column">
-        {{#if build}}
-          <span class="icon icon-hash"></span>
-          {{#link-to "build" build}}
-            {{build.number}}{{/link-to}}
-        {{else}}
-          -
-        {{/if}}
-      </p>
-      <p class="jobs-item requests-message column">{{message}}</p>
-    </li>
+  {{#each model as |request| }}
+    {{requests-item request=request}}
   {{/each}}
 </ul>
diff --git a/tests/unit/components/requests-item-test.coffee b/tests/unit/components/requests-item-test.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7b8f38a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/components/requests-item-test.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+`import { test, moduleForComponent } from 'ember-qunit'`
+
+moduleForComponent 'requests-item', {
+  # specify the other units that are required for this test
+  # needs: ['component:foo', 'helper:bar']
+}
+
+test 'it renders', (assert) ->
+  assert.expect 2
+
+  # creates the component instance
+  component = @subject()
+  assert.equal component._state, 'preRender'
+
+  # renders the component to the page
+  @render()
+  assert.equal component._state, 'inDOM'