form params help

Zac Elston wrote:

I've got a form where I have several items ("packages") listed and I want to query a param that should contain all the "packages" from the form in the controller. However I'm only getting the first item returned.

a working example is HATBM checkboxes where <input id="package[names]" name="package[names]" type="checkbox" value="z1" /> vs <input id="package_names" name="package[names]" type="text" value="z1" />

how do I get the name="object[method]

here's the rhtml

<%= start_form_tag :action => 'push' %> <% @packages.each do |p| %> <%= hidden_field 'package', 'Name', :value => p.Name %> <% end %>   <%= submit_tag "PushIT" %> <%= end_form_tag %>

my controller (just a skeleton at the moment to debug

def push

@params = params   @pkgparams = params[:package][:Name]

end

my result is only the first package from the |p| loop.

How do I get multiple text fields to collect into a param with the same name like a checkbox does?

<% @packages.each do |p| %> <%= text_field_tag 'package_names', p.name %> <% end %>

params[:package_names] will be an array of strings when the form is posted.