title: how would I translate this from searchlogic to metwhere in Rails 3?
body: <p>I had the following in searchlogic:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Todo.contact_id_is(self.id).ascend_by_original_date.done_date_not_null.first
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How would I do this in metawhere now that I am in Rails 3?  In particular the not_null and the sorting?</p>
  
  <p>Hello, I'm a little confused.  When I look at the named scopes found in meta_search (instead of metawhere)...that's more of what I'm looking for...and now metasearch is being replaced with ransack....</p>
  
  <p>What is the way to do chained searches with sql on my models in the way searchlogic made it so drop-dead easy?</p>
  
  <p>...okay...now it looks like ransack is for forms, but queries on models is squeel?  Checking that out....</p>