title: JSON string to rails hash
body: <p>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 <code>JSON.parse</code> I get a JSON string without the delimiters:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{"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}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Results of <code>JSON.parse</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>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></pre>
  
  <p>Code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>puts string_to_parse
  fence_parsed = JSON.parse(string_to_parse)
  puts fence_parsed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Nick</p>