gistfile1.txt

// Javascript that submits data:
function pushResults() {
  $.ajax({
    type : "POST",
    url : "/mindfulness_tutor",
    beforeSend: function(jqXHR, settings) {
        jqXHR.setRequestHeader('X-CSRF-Token', $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content'));
    },
    dataType: "text/plain", 
    data : "stats=" + serialize(resultsArray) + "&total=" + totalMeditationTime,

  });
}

// Rails Controller code to save data:
    if request.post?
      current_user.meditation_sessions.create(data: params, raw_data: params.inspect)
    end

// Database saves:
data: --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess
raw_data: {"stats"=>"a:1:{i:0", "a:3:{i:0"=>nil, "i:62000"=>nil, "i:1"=>nil, "i:0"=>nil, "i:2"=>nil, "}}total"=>"120000", "action"=>"mindfulness_tutor", "controller"=>"pages"}

// Post:
stats=a:1:{i:0;a:3:{i:0;i:59000;i:1;i:0;i:2;i:0;}}

// Rails log:
Started POST "/mindfulness_tutor" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-03-22 11:59:16 -0700
Processing by PagesController#mindfulness_tutor as */*
  Parameters: {"stats"=>"a:1:{i:0", "a:3:{i:0"=>nil, "i:59000"=>nil, "i:1"=>nil, "i:0"=>nil, "i:2"=>nil, "}}total"=>"60000"}
  User Load (0.2ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = 3 LIMIT 1
   (0.1ms)  begin transaction
  CACHE (0.0ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = 3 LIMIT 1
  SQL (60.9ms)  INSERT INTO "meditation_sessions" ("created_at", "data", "raw_data", "updated_at", "user_id") VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)  [["created_at", Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:59:16 PDT -07:00], ["data", {"stats"=>"a:1:{i:0", "a:3:{i:0"=>nil, "i:59000"=>nil, "i:1"=>nil, "i:0"=>nil, "i:2"=>nil, "}}total"=>"60000", "action"=>"mindfulness_tutor", "controller"=>"pages"}], ["raw_data", "{\"stats\"=>\"a:1:{i:0\", \"a:3:{i:0\"=>nil, \"i:59000\"=>nil, \"i:1\"=>nil, \"i:0\"=>nil, \"i:2\"=>nil, \"}}total\"=>\"60000\", \"action\"=>\"mindfulness_tutor\", \"controller\"=>\"pages\"}"], ["updated_at", Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:59:16 PDT -07:00], ["user_id", 3]]
   (50.3ms)  commit transaction
  Rendered pages/mindfulness_tutor.html.haml within layouts/application (0.3ms)
Completed 200 OK in 181ms (Views: 64.9ms | ActiveRecord: 111.4ms)

// request headers
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Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:61
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded
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Host:localhost:3000
Origin:http://localhost:3000
Referer:http://localhost:3000/mindfulness_tutor
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.172 Safari/537.22
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X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest