Converting an array of objects to ActiveRecord::Relation

I have an array of objects, let's call it an Indicator. I want to run Indicator class methods (those of the def self.subjects variety, scopes, etc) on this array. The only way I know to run class methods on a group of objects is to have them be an ActiveRecord::Relation. So I end up resorting to adding a to_indicators method to Array. def to_indicators # TODO: Make this less terrible. Indicator.wh