On Jun 15, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Hassan Schroeder wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Ronald Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Card.where(box_id: params[:box_id]).map {|c| c.id }.each do |cid|
>>  # .... Do something with cid
>> end
> 
>> This is compact, but I don't like the fact that first, all data from the
>> retrieved Card objects needs to be stored in memory at least temporarily
>> (there is even a 'text' field in Card!), but only the id is needed.
> 
>> I wonder whether there is a simpler solution, using just
>> ActiveRecord functions.
> 
> As Colin pointed out,
> 
> (assume that ) box = Box.find(box_id)
> 
> box.cards  #  has the cards you want *if* you need all the attributes
> 
> box.cards.pluck(:id)  #  builds a query to fetch *only* the card ids
> 
> HTH,
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What about box.card_ids ? Doesn't that do much the same thing?

Walter

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