After months of development, the MetaWhere and MetaSearch gems for Rails 3 have finally hit 1.0. MetaWhere provides improvements to AR3 query syntax, offering access to ARel predicate methods that aren’t available in stock ActiveRecord, support for outer joins, SQL functions, and more, while MetaSearch provides simple object-based searching and sorting for use in Rails forms, and will be a comfortable transition for those used to using Searchlogic in Rails 2.x.