Problem with named_scope causes error in will_paginate - how to include group_by in count?

[rails 2.3.12] named_scope:

named_scope :order_by_price, lambda {{:joins => :variants, :group => "products.id", :order => "MAX(price)"}}

console:

1.
> Product.order_by_price.size
=> 21

2. 
> p = Product.order_by_price
> p.size
=> 4

sql queries:

1.
SELECT count(*) AS count_all FROM `products` INNER JOIN `variants` ON variants.product_id = produc开发者_开发技巧ts.id

2.    
SELECT `products`.* FROM `products` INNER JOIN `variants` ON variants.product_id = products.id GROUP BY products.id ORDER BY MAX(price)

I use will_paginate for pagination. In this case total_entries value is 21 and number of pages is based on this, although there are only 4 products...

Any ideas how can I get this to work correctly?

EDIT

In general I have to include group_by when calling Product.count... how?

No answers, but I found a solution. Maybe it will be useful for someone else too. I just had to redefine count, selecting distinct product_id:

  def self.count(*args)
    super(args, {:select => "(products.id)", :distinct => true})
  end