Refactoring of many if statements for params[…], inside controller action?

I think a big part of the problem is you're doing too much in your controller. Generating markup (and IMO that includes building parameter lists for form helpers) should be done in views and view helpers. So.

There is no obvious solution to this kind of problem.

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