Ruby/Rhomobile: parse directory string representation

Question

I have a string that looks like this: {"whatever-field"=>"gghyduudud"}
I'd like to parse it so that it becomes a hash.

Please help.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use eval, but only if the data source is absolutely reliable:

>> eval('{"whatever-field"=>"gghyduudud"}')
=> {"whatever-field"=>"gghyduudud"}