Ruby on Rails JSON.parse unexpected token error

I am trying to parse JSON data in my Rails 3 application with

JSON.parse

. I keep getting this error:

737: unexpected token at
'{\"0\":{\"class\":\"window\",\"text\":\"Testing\",\"style\":\"position:
absolute; top: 8px; left: 8px; width: 560px; height: 290px; z-index:
0; \"}

The actual JSON is a lot longer, but it is basically the same.

Michelle Tilley

Answer Source

Well, we can only answer based on the part of the JSON you showed us, but it has two problems:

All the quote characters (") are escaped; they don't need to be unless they are used in a double-qoted string, which it appears they are not.
You are missing a closing brace (}).

Otherwise it passes based on http://www.jsonlint.com/.

Ruby on Rails JSON.parse unexpected token error

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