title: Accessesing saved JSON response in column
body: <p>Okay, I am using HTTParty to save a JSON response in my show.subsources column. Subsources is a text type column.</p>
  
  <p>For example, one of my subsources: column currently has the data saved as so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[{"source"=&gt;"hulu_free", "display_name"=&gt;"Hulu", "id"=&gt;6001348,"link"=&gt;"http://www.hulu.com/watch/843378"}]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To me, this looks like a hash within an array. How do I access each hash within the array, so that I can correctly display the "source" name in my views?</p>
  
  <p>What I have tried is:   </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;% showdata = show.subsources %&gt;
  &lt;%= showdata[0]['sources'] %&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am expecting that to display 'hulu_free', but instead it will not show anything in my views. Am I not using the right syntax to access that hash? Or am I not saving the JSON correctly in order for me to access the hash data? Do I need to parse the data first? I have spent way too long trying to figure this out.</p>