With EasyArel instead of:
Thing.arel_table[:created_at]
you can say
Thing[:created_at]
EasyArel also creates class & instance methods named _ that reference your class, So in your model you can be all like
scope :recent, order(_[:created_at].desc)
You can't just use the brackets in this case, because that would just be an array. It's stupid, but I didn't feel like experimenting with any crazy operator overloading. I'm open to suggestions on making this better.
I doubt this is even a good idea, but whatever, tests pass.