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advanced patterns with ActiveRecord scopes when chaining in Ruby on Rails 7.0

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I've encountered a strange issue with I've searched everywhere and can't find a clear answer. I'm working with an scenario with my ActiveRecord scopes in a Ruby on Rails 7.0 application. I have defined a couple of scopes in my `User` model like so: ```ruby class User < ApplicationRecord scope :active, -> { where(active: true) } scope :recent, -> { where('created_at >= ?', 1.week.ago) } end ``` When I try to chain these scopes together, I expect to get only the active users who were created within the last week. However, the query seems to be returning users who are not active. Here's how I'm chaining the scopes: ```ruby recent_active_users = User.recent.active ``` Instead of getting a result set with only active users, I receive all recent users, regardless of their active status. I checked the generated SQL query using `recent_active_users.to_sql` and it looks like this: ```sql SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE (created_at >= '2023-10-01 00:00:00') ``` As you can see, thereโ€™s no condition for `active: true` in the query. I initially thought it might be a caching scenario, so I tried clearing the cache and restarting the server, but that didnโ€™t help. I also checked if there were any before filters or default scopes applied to the `User` model that might be interfering, but I found none. My next step was to test individual scopes, and they both work correctly when called separately: ```ruby User.recent.pluck(:id) # Gives the expected recent user IDs User.active.pluck(:id) # Gives the expected active user IDs ``` It seems only when they're chained together that the condition for `active` is being ignored. I've double-checked that I'm not inadvertently modifying the scopes elsewhere in the code. Is there something I'm overlooking here, or is this potentially a bug in Rails 7.0? Any insights would be greatly appreciated! Any help would be greatly appreciated! This issue appeared after updating to Ruby latest. I appreciate any insights!