# Form handling by rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 21, 2009, 10:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/form-handling-by-rails/177631 "2009-10-21T10:17:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nicholas\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@Nicholas\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nicholas_W)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 10:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/form-handling-by-rails/177631/1 "2009-10-21T10:17:53Z")
Hi guys, I’m writing a sinatra app that interfaces to a Rails core, authenticating with OAuth and making requests to the main service. I’m experiencing a weird behaviour and I hope that someone can give me a clue about what’s happening here. By inspecting request and response I noticed something very weird. Sorry if this is long. This is my request from Sinatra to Rails (only the query hash): “rack.request.query\_hash”=\>{“contest”=\>{“it”=\>{“brief”=\>“ Vi lanciamo un contest originale, che avr\303\240 sviluppi professionali interessanti per chi ne risulter\303\240 vincitore. (…)”}}} This is how Rails handles it: Parameters: {“it”=\>“brief Vi lanciamo un contest originale, che avrà sviluppi professionali interessanti per chi ne risulterà vincitore. (…)”} It basically flattens everything in there. Maybe I’m mistaken and I’m doing something wrong (as usual), but it seems Rails has a problem here handling parameters in the correct way. I also posted the same question to the OAuth gem ML, but by looking at the code of the gem I don’t see anything strange. ngw – Nicholas W. (ngw) Zooppa CTO 911 Western Avenue, Suite 420 Seattle, WA 98104 US