Parse JSON

parse-json.rb

require 'json'

json = '{
  "description":"the description for this gist",
  "public":true,
  "files":{
    "file1.txt":{
      "content":"String file contents"
    }
  }
}'

hash = {
  "description" => "the description for this gist",
  "public" => true,
  "files" => {
    "file1.txt" => {
      "content" => "String file contents"
    }
  }
}

h = JSON.parse(json)
p h.class
p h
p h['description']
puts ""

j = JSON.generate(hash)
p j.class
p j
puts j