Question

I bet this has a simple answer.. Let’s say I have a Post model and I want to have a scope that returns the ten most recent entries. I thought I could write the scope like this:

   scope :first_ten order('created_at DESC').limit(10)

But this returns the error

 syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting keyword_end
     scope :first_ten order('created_at ASC').limit(10)

How do I write this scope correctly? Thanks !

Answer 1

You are missing the comma which separates the two arguments being the name of the scope :first_ten and the arel-object order('created_at ASC').limit(10)

So i guess it should read
scope :first_ten, order('created_at DESC').limit(10)