Saving a long list of hasMany Through associasions

I have two models: Users and Surveys. In my Users "index" view, each User row has two select lists that are populated with the names of all the available Surveys.

The idea is to allow someone to assign two Surveys to each user, right from the Index page. The associations take place via a hasMany Through association: the intermediary model is called SurveyAssignments (I can't do HABTM because I'm storing meta info).

What I'm struggling with is that I can't figure out how to save all those associations, from one page, or how to account for each user's specifica association state: some users will have association records, some will not. Some will need associations created, others changed or removed.

I would like to avoid large complicated nests of if statements!

How can I account for multiple records one on page, and handle all of their unique association states without getting overly bloated or complex? Any ideas?

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