Convert string into Array in rails

Question

I send an array from rest client and received it like this: \"[1,2,3,4,5]\"

Now I just want to convert it into Array without using Ruby\'s eval

Answer 1

require 'json'

JSON.parse "[1,2,3,4,5]"
  #=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 

JSON.parse "[[1,2],3,4]"
  #=> [[1, 2], 3, 4]