JSON string for rails

Question

I am on Rails 2.3 and I am trying to convert a string formatted in JSON to Rails hashing. However, when I use JSON.parse, I get a JSON string without separators:

{"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 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

the code:

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

Any ideas?

Thanks Nick

Answer 1

This is simply because you are using "puts". If you simply type fence_parsedor p fence_parsed, you will get what you are looking for. putscauses to_s. I hope this cleans you if you don’t tell me, and I will clarify.