After adding squeel into the project, all existing scope that has expressions like where(:status => :ACTIVE) failed, because it generates sql like:
SELECT people.* FROM people WHERE people.status = people.ACTIVE

Of course changing :ACTIVE into string will solve the problem, but I am a little worried about needing to double check all existing scope. And the conflict with standard rails usage also make me hesitate to use squeel, since someone new may break it easily.

Any ideas/suggestions?

Btw: I am using Rails 3.1.1 and I leave symbol extension disabled.