Acts_as_tree -- getting children IDs?

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I'm having trouble getting all the IDs of the children of my acts_as_tree group.

child.id seems to return the entire object.

for child in g.children child.id end

=> [#<Group id: 2, name: "Campaign Admin", parent_id: 1, affiliate_id: nil, created_at: "2008-05-04 22:21:16", updated_at: "2008-05-04 22:21:16", permission: "campaigns">, #<Group id: 4, name: "Ideas Admin", parent_id: 1, affiliate_id: nil, created_at: "2008-05-04 22:22:05", updated_at: "2008-05-04 22:22:05", permission: "ideas">, #<Group id: 3, name: "User Admin", parent_id: 1, affiliate_id: nil, created_at: "2008-05-04 22:21:39", updated_at: "2008-05-04 22:21:39", permission: "users">]

Any ideas? Thanks!

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A for loop evaluates to the colection it iterates over. You probably want something like g.children.collect {|child| child.id} (sometimes people write g.children.collect &:id instead)

Fred