Rails - Jun 2006 - forms - a better way to pass data?

i know there is a better way to do this..

i am running a logging type program using rails..

a macromedia director program sends some post data to:

http://host/logger

and if the data is okay, it makes a new entry into the database..

the problem is:

when i first wrote it, i had a form that i used to make sure all the 
data was moving around okay..

what i did was, named all the form elements as "entry[name]"..

this passed a hash to the controlller.. and i did something like:

@entry=Entry.new(@params[:entry])

and everything worked great..

we just found out that director has a problem passing such data to the 
controller, and i had to remove all of the hash entries, and just called 
them:

realm, user, status, message..

when i did something like:

@entry=Entry.new(@params)

i had a problem with the number of arguments..

the snipped of code at the bottom of this shows how i handled this..

it works and all, but i want to come up with a better way to do this 
when i have a HUGE form that may run into this problem..

so, is there a more elegant way to do this?

thanks so much!

---code snippet---


class LoggerController < ApplicationController
  def index
    if request.post? and @params[:usage]=="logger"
      @data=@params
      @entry = 
Entry.new(:user=>params[:user],:realm=>params[:realm],:status=>params[:status],:message=>params[:message])
      @entry.save
    else
      @message="illegal access.. data not logged..."
    end
  end
end

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