title: Ruby on Rails save multiple sub records from a list in a text area
body: <p>I have scoured stack overflow for and answer to my problem but can't find one.  So I was hoping that someone else out there has tried what I want to do before.</p>
  
  <p>I have a question model, which has many options.  What I want to do is allow the user to copy a list of options into a textarea as a return/new line separated list.</p>
  
  <p>i.e. a list of locations</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>London <br />
    Paris <br />
    New York <br />
    Singapore <br />
    Sydney <br /></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>And then from the questions controller I want to get each of these items insert them in the options model.</p>
  
  <p>What I can't work out is how I access the textarea element from the controller as there is no object name associated with it.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks
  Ben </p>