"uuid": "ede84c89-3e5a-4025-a8d4-8c66cfed1820", "created_at": "2018-05-27 22:54:55 +0900" } END JSON.parse(json) # => {"id"=>1, # "uuid"=>"ede84c89-3e5a-4025-a8d4-8c66cfed1820", # "created_at"=>"2018-05-27 22:54:55 +0900"} Hash object has String keys.