Don't say is_a?(ActiveRecord::NamedScope::Scope) because that is no longer true in Rails 3 and also doesn't match unscoped ActiveRecord classes themselves (which we consider scopes for all practical purposes).

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A good way is to say this instead:

object.respond_to?(:scoped)