Rails - Aug 2006 - how is form data sent to the conntroller?

I''m trying to implement a bunch of checkboxes whose value I need to use
to process more code without updating the db.

This is my code to for the checkbox in my view
input type=checkbox id=<%=search.name%>_selected
name=<%=search.name%>[selected]>

I guess my question is, when I''m back in the controller, how do I get
at
the actual value (checked or unchecked)? It doesn''t seem like
that''s an
attribute

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The form values are returned in the hash-like object "params".

So params[''name''] would get you the value of the checkbox with
a name of
''name''.

Also, see the ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper page in the api at 
http://api.rubyonrails.org/

Rails helpers can generate the checkbox code for you.  check_box() is 
for data going to or from a model object.  check_box_tag() is for 
non-model data.

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