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Does anyone have suggestions for an off-the-shelf data reporting tool to help display some data in a webapp for internal users to see?

• Google Charts
• DabbleDB
• ActiveScaffold
• Google Spreadsheets API

form.submit() vs. <form onsubmit=”…”>: An onsubmit attribute added to a form element doesn’t get called when form.submit() is called from Javascript.

• Try using Javascript to attach an onsubmit handler rather than adding it as an attribute of the form element.
• Instead of calling form.submit() from Javascript, send a click event to a hidden submit button.

Timezones are being ignored when a date is passed into ActiveRecord’s find method, but are not ignored when passed into other methods.

This seems to be due to a bug in ActiveSupport’s to_s(:db). One solution is to override to_s and fix the time zone.

Interesting Things

• When trying to create an ssh tunnel to EngineYard, set GatewayPorts to yes in sshd, otherwise the tunnel won’t bind to your local computer.

• WAVE Toolbar (Web accessiblity evaluation tool) is a great Firefox extension that shows you which parts of your pages have accessibility issues.

• The next meeting of the San Francisco Pivotal Tracker Users Group is tonight at 6:30 PM at the Pivotal Labs headquaters on Market St.