count before where fails

The active record querying rails guide gives this example of querying:
Client.count.where("clients.first_name = 'Ryan' AND orders.status = 'received'").includes("orders")

However when I do that I get the error:
undefined method where' for Fixnum

Which means to me that it is doing the count before taking into account the where. I don't know if this is a bug or not. For now I'll just move my count method to after the where.