ruby-on-rails - How to remove backslashes in string generated through .to_json function. Rails 3.2

Question

["{\"id\":317277848652099585,\"Tweet text\":\"Food Carnival by KMS Homemade Food\\nOn the      occasion of this Holi and Good Friday, KMS Homemade Foods invites you...     http://t.co/2Y2mO6vr76\",\"Word count\":21,\"Url\":\"true\"}"]

a is a hash with some keys and values.

    a = a.to_json

converts the hash to a string. Now a is a string with all backslashes... I know tha

    puts a 

returns a string with all backslashes removed but what if i want to store the 'backslash removed string' in a variable?

Answer 1

It's much better to use as_json instead. Provides the json without backslashes.

For reference, http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel/Serializers/JSON.html

Answer 2

You can just gsub! to replace the \" with a single quote ', like so:

a.gsub!(/\"/, '\'')

Answer 3

I faced the same problem and I did eval(a) and it gave me actual hash with no double quotes and slashes although eval is considered security risk