How to change array in string into normal array

Question

I've got objects thats stores some data in hstore (filters), and that filters also have an arrays inside.

How to transform this arrays in string class to normal arrays?

OpenStruct.new(@object.filters)
=> #<OpenStruct name="sth", email="sth", phone="123", subject="[\"\", \subject1\", \"subject2\", \"subject3\"]">

Mandeep · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-18 10:27:43Z

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Use JSON or YAML parsers.

require 'json'

obj = OpenStruck.new(@object.filters)
JSON.parse obj.subject

Or,

require 'yaml'

obj = OpenStruck.new(@object.filters)
YAML.load obj.subject

Mandeep

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answered Jun 18, 2015 at 10:22

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