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Ruby Ruby Core and Standard Library Ruby Standard Library: Part 2 JSON

Mariah Schmidt
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Require the 'json' library so it can be used

In the video, it looked like all that was needed to work with JSON in Ruby was to "require 'json'". What did I miss?

json.rb 
require 'json'
json_string = <<-STR
  { "name": "Treehouse", "location": "Portland, OR" }
STR.json
  { "name": "Treehouse", "location": "Portland, OR" }
STR.json

1 Answer

Jay McGavren
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Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

You're requiring the 'json' library correctly. But STR is actually the marker that marks the end of the multi-line string that's being assigned to json_string. STR needs to be all by itself on the line.

I'd recommend re-watching the video one more time to figure out how to call parse correctly. Your solution needs to look something like this:

require 'json'

json_string = <<-STR
  { "name": "Treehouse", "location": "Portland, OR" }
STR

treehouse = # YOUR CODE HERE