Scopes must return the `ActiveRecord::Relation` object.
When it comes to the `scopes` declaration in Rails Models, we need to remember about returning relation objects. It's very important to not return objects themselves (with first/last/find or any other method), because in the case of an empty result, the scope will return all records. It's strictly connected with the general rule for scopes: chaining. Scopes should always be chainable.
See the first response to ActiveRecord scope with first returns all records issue in Ruby on Rails source code repository.
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