Rails - May 2006 - acts_as_paranoid, aliasing and nested scopes in Rails 1.1

I have a real problem with the acts_as_paranoid plugin. The aliasing of 
find and so the nested scope does not seem to work at all, when 
combining it with similar plugins.

The description:
I made a copy of ''acts_as_paranoid'' in the plugin directory,
renamed it
to ''acts_as_very_new''(just a nonsense plugin for testing), and
simplified the code (original code of acts_as_paranoid can be found 
here: 
http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/acts_as_paranoid/lib/caboose/acts/paranoid.rb):

#--------------------------------------------------------------BEGIN
 module VeryNew
   #...
   module ClassMethods
     def acts_as_very_new
       unless is_very_new?
         class << self
           alias_method :find_with_old,  :find
         end
       end
       include InstanceMethods
     end
     #...
   end

   module InstanceMethods #:nodoc:
     #...

     module ClassMethods
       def find(*args)
         with_very_new_scope { find_with_old(*args) }
       end

       protected
         def with_very_new_scope(&block)
           with_scope({:find => {:conditions => 
["#{table_name}.updated_at > ?", (Time.new - 3.days)]} }, :merge, 
&block)
         end
     end

   end
 end
#--------------------------------------------------------------END

As you can see, there''s no change in structure, it''s the same
as the
original ''acts_as_paranoid'' only with a different
find-condition. Next I
added following code to a model:

#--------------------------------------------------------------BEGIN
class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_paranoid
  acts_as_very_new
  #...
end
#--------------------------------------------------------------END

In a controller I did the following calls:

 Book.find(:all)
 # SQL: SELECT * FROM books WHERE ((books.updated_at > ''2006-05-08 
11:38:33'') AND (books.deleted_at IS NULL))

 Book.find_with_old(:all)
 # SQL: SELECT * FROM books WHERE (books.deleted_at IS NULL)

 Book.find_with_deleted(:all)
 # SQL: SELECT * FROM books

Isn''t is strange? Shouldn''t
"Book.find_with_deleted(:all)" generate a
"WHERE (books.updated_at > ''2006-05-08
11:38:33'')" condition? The
problem seems to be in aliasing of find. When I switch the call order of 
"acts_as_paranoid" and "acts_as_very_new" in the model, I
get:

 Book.find(:all)
 # SQL: SELECT * FROM books WHERE ((books.updated_at > ''2006-05-08 
11:38:33'') AND (books.deleted_at IS NULL))

 Book.find_with_old(:all)
 # SQL: SELECT * FROM books

 Book.find_with_deleted(:all)
 # SQL: SELECT * FROM books WHERE (books.updated_at > ''2006-05-08 
11:38:33'')


Has anyone an idea how to fix it?
Thanks in advance,
Dave

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