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Exceptions thrown in Rails views get wrapped by ActionView::TemplateError which makes rescuing specific exceptions hard

It's probably best to prepare all your data in your controller or models and not in the view, which will obviate this and other problems.

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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.

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