Parse JSON string to object with attributes

Question

Currently my app is parsing JSON in following way:

OpenStruct.new(JSON.parse(json_string))

but there are problems with this approach:

1. JSON allows root-level arrays like [{id: 1, name: "first"}, {id: 2, name: "second"}] and OpenStruct can't handle them throwing an exception.
2. OpenStruct does not handle nested elements.

I found some solutions like RecursiveOpenStruct and others.

1. They handle nested hashes, but still can't handle top-level arrays
2. Hashes nested into array remain hashes: {data: [{id: 1, name: "first"}, {id: 2, name: "second"}]} here each .data[i] is a Hash.