JSON string to rails hash

Question

I'm on Rails 2.3 and I'm trying to convert a string that is JSON-formatted to a Rails hash. However, when I use JSON.parse I get a JSON string without the delimiters:

{"source_id":40007,"object":"86088947610496.1","coursewalk_id":"86088947610477.1","description":"","image_uri":"db\/db-files\/
Image_2011-09-24_14.37.37__0000.jpg","latitude":"38.0113439821061","letter":"","letter_A":"","letter_B":"","letter_C":"","lett
er_D":"","letter_E":"","letter_F":"","longitude":"-78.7576854509104","number":"1","mcw_id":71}

Results of JSON.parse:

number1letter_Bcoursewalk_id86088947610477.1letter_Clatitude38.0113439821061letter_Dletter_Eletter_Fmcw_id71longitude-78.75768
54509104letterdescriptionobject86088947610496.1source_id40007letter_Aimage_uridb/db-files/Image_2011-09-24_14.37.37__0000.jpg

Code:

puts string_to_parse
fence_parsed = JSON.parse(string_to_parse)
puts fence_parsed

Any ideas?

Thanks, Nick

Answer 1

That's just because you're using "puts". If you just type fence_parsed, or p fence_parsed you'll get what you're looking for. puts calls to_s. I hope this clears it up for you, if not let me know and I'll elaborate.