I have a hash
{:name =>"[email protected]"}
I am trying to convert this hash into the following JavaScript format.
{"name" : "[email protected]"}
I tried:
{:name=>"[email protected]"}.to_json
which gives the output:
"{\"name\":\"[email protected]\"}"
Parsing it with JSON gives:
JSON.parse({:name=>"[email protected]"}.to_json)
# => {"name"=>"[email protected]"}
to_json should work:
require 'json'
{:name =>"[email protected]"}.to_json
#=> "{"name":"[email protected]"}"
What I understand is that you want to recreate the same hash that you converted to JSON.
This could be done by passing option symbolize_names: true to JSON.parse method.
The code would look something like this
JSON.parse({:name=>"[email protected]"}.to_json, symbolize_names: true)
"{\"name\":\"[email protected]\"}"is theinspectof the string, the default way strings are presented in console. The string content (escaped by backslashes byinspect, which is why you may have thought the result to be wrong) is:{"name":"[email protected]"}, exactly what you want. useputs {...}.to_jsoninstead of just{...}.to_jsonin console to verify this.