Parse a string as if it were a querystring in Ruby on Rails

Question

I have a string like this:

\"foo=bar&bar=foo&hello=hi\"

Does Ruby on Rails provide methods to parse this as if it is a querystring,

Answer 1

The

CGI::parse("foo=bar&bar=foo&hello=hi")

Gives you

{"foo"=>["bar"], "hello"=>["hi"], "bar"=>["foo"]}