Shortcut for getting ids for an ActiveRecord scope
You can use .ids on an ActiveRecord 4+ scope to pluck all the ids of the relation
User.where("users.name LIKE 'Foo Bar'").ids
# same as (since Rails 3.2)
User.where("users.name LIKE 'Foo Bar'").pluck(:id)
If you are stuck on Rails 2.3 you can use
Edge Rider's collect_ids
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User.where("users.name LIKE 'Foo Bar'").collect_ids(:id)
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