title: Ruby on Rails correct way to pass large amounts of data from view to controller
body: <p>I am very new to rails but I am trying to pass a large amount of data that is on a view to a controller so I can save it in a model. Right now I am trying to pass one parameter as a test case using AJAX shown here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25701375/rails-routing-pass-parameter-with-ajax-beginner">Rails Routing pass parameter with ajax</a> but I was wondering if there is a simpler/more ruby way to do this. I looked at using a form but that didnt seem to be what I needed.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to send data pulled from other services using javascript. something like the pattern below is what I have in javascript. I am trying to save it to a rails database.</p>
  
  <pre><code>id: 1, name: bob, param1: xyz, .....
  .....
  id: 2999, name: sue, param1: abc, .....
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I discovered one way to pass params, as a link, but it seems like a really bad solution. Anyone have any other ideas?</p>