Question

Here is the .ajax call. The variable questions is a JSON object:

Object {question_1: "3", question_2: "6", question_3: "9", question_4: "15", question_5: "12"}

    $.ajax({
      type: "POST",
      url: "/save",
      data: questions,
      dataType: 'json',
      contentType: 'application/json',
      success: function (data) {
        alert('success');
      }
      });

My ruby contorller.

def save
 # How do I access the data object?
end

Do I just do a params[:data] or params[:questions] ?

Thanks and while I found other questions similar to this, none mentioned what the actual parameter name is called.

Answer 1

It’s whatever you’ve made the questions variable. If you’ve included a root object

{"question": { ... }}

It’ll be accessible at params[:question]

Otherwise the attributes will be included in the root of the params hash along with anything Rails adds and the URL attributes.

By the by, I would expect the data in a variable called questions to look something like this:

{ "questions": [{ ... }, { ... }]}