ruby convert a string to a plain text? : I am trying to implement a mongo query. I wrote a function that returns one of the query's parameter. 

    "'Week Of': {'$in': [02/13/17]}"
However, when I dont want the double quotes at the front and back of the string. I understand it is a string and it needs it but when I inject it into my query, it will not work because it has those double quotes. Is there any way to convert the string to a plain text so it would only be `'Week Of': {'$in': [02/13/17]}` ? 