arel sql syntax

Gemfile

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ gem 'haml', '3.1.2'
 gem 'rdoc', '2.4.3'
 gem 'erubis'
 gem 'rails_xss'
+gem 'fake_arel'
 
 group :test do
   gem 'factory_girl'

Gemfile.lock

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ GEM
     crack (0.1.8)
     erubis (2.7.0)
     factory_girl (1.3.3)
+    fake_arel (0.9.9)
+      activerecord (>= 2.3.5)
     faraday (0.6.1)
       addressable (~> 2.2.4)
       multipart-post (~> 1.1.0)
@@ -63,6 +65,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   crack (= 0.1.8)
   erubis
   factory_girl
+  fake_arel
   haml (= 3.1.2)
   httparty (~> 0.7.8)
   mash (= 0.1.1)

app/models/tweet.rb

@@ -23,13 +23,11 @@ def build_by_value(username, value)
 
   validates_uniqueness_of :status_id
 
+  named_scope :recent_first, ('status_at desc')
+
   #TODO: Re tagless: should we even store entries w/o a tag?
   #TODO: maybe we shouldn't even store the from user in tweet
-  named_scope :recent, :order => 'status_at desc', :limit => 5,
-      :include => :tweet_tags,
-      :conditions => {:tagless => false}
-
-  named_scope :recent_first, :order => 'status_at desc'
+  named_scope :recent, where(:tagless => false).includes(:tweet_tags).order('status_at desc').limit(5)
 
   class << self    
     # Find the latest (most recent) Twitter status ID that we've fetched.