Passing an array to a Ruby controller (from AJAX)

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I thought I knew how to do this, but it's not working. I'm passing an array of ids to a ruby controller with an HTTPService call.. It's getting the call but it's only using the first value. The url is like so (GET for clarity)

/league/getopenleagues/dbg_12345?friends=dbg_12346&friends=dbg_12347

In the controller I am grabbing those ids and shoving them into a find query in a comma seperated list so that I can do a "NOT IN" condition. I'm probably doing this poorly, but I'm doing it like this:

      friendsList = Array.new       params[:friends].each do |friend|         friendsList.push("'"+friend+"'");       end

and then in the conditions I do:

network_id NOT IN (#{friendsList.join(",")})

First off - is there a better way to do that without the intermediary steps? And also, why is this not working - it doesn't think it's an array?

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First off - is there a better way to do that without the intermediary steps? And also, why is this not working - it doesn't think it's an array?

IIRC you need to call your parameter friends for rails to treat it like an array.

Fred