diff --git a/app/models/person.rb b/app/models/person.rb
index d8251c964..5e7fa9db2 100644
--- a/app/models/person.rb
+++ b/app/models/person.rb
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
         where(:aspect_memberships => {:aspect_id => aspect_ids})
   }
 
-  scope :profile_tagged_with, lambda{|tag_name| joins(:profile => :tags).where(:profile => {:tags => {:name => tag_name}}).where('profiles.searchable IS TRUE') }
+  scope :profile_tagged_with, lambda{|tag_name| joins(:profile => :tags).where(:tags => {:name => tag_name}).where('profiles.searchable IS TRUE') }
 
   scope :who_have_reshared_a_users_posts, lambda{|user|
     joins(:posts).where(:posts => {:root_guid => StatusMessage.guids_for_author(user.person), :type => 'Reshare'} )
diff --git a/app/models/tag_following.rb b/app/models/tag_following.rb
index b47fbb973..915221856 100644
--- a/app/models/tag_following.rb
+++ b/app/models/tag_following.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ class TagFollowing < ActiveRecord::Base
   validates_uniqueness_of :tag_id, :scope => :user_id
 
   def self.user_is_following?(user, tagname)
-    tagname.nil? ? false : joins(:tag).where(:tags => {:name => tagname.downcase}, :user_id => user.id).exists?
+    tagname.nil? ? false : joins(:tag).where(:tags => {:name => tagname.downcase}).where(:user_id => user.id).exists?
   end
 
 end