title: How to remove backslashes in string generated through .to_json function. Rails 3.2
body: <pre><code>["{\"id\":317277848652099585,\"Tweet text\":\"Food Carnival by KMS Homemade Food\\nOn the      occasion of this Holi and Good Friday, KMS Homemade Foods invites you...     http://t.co/2Y2mO6vr76\",\"Word count\":21,\"Url\":\"true\"}"]
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  <p>a is a hash with some keys and values.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    a = a.to_json
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  <p>converts the hash to a string.
  Now a is a string with all backslashes...
  I know tha</p>
  
  <pre><code>    puts a 
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  <p>returns a string with all backslashes removed but what if i want to store the 'backslash removed string' in a variable?</p>