diff --git a/app/controllers/public/home_controller.rb b/app/controllers/public/home_controller.rb
index 2968a0b..69a56e6 100644
--- a/app/controllers/public/home_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/public/home_controller.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 class HomeController < PublicController
 
   def index
-    @articles = TextArticle.recent(nil, 10)
+    @articles = environment.recent_documents(10)
   end
 
 end
diff --git a/app/models/article.rb b/app/models/article.rb
index e94d4d8..acc01c1 100644
--- a/app/models/article.rb
+++ b/app/models/article.rb
@@ -26,13 +26,10 @@ class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
     self.find(:all, :conditions => [ 'parent_id is null and profile_id = ?', profile.id ])
   end
 
-  # retrieves the latest +limit+ articles in profile +profile+, sorted from the
-  # most recent to the oldest.
-  #
-  # If +profile+ is +nil+, then all profiles are searched for articles.
-  def self.recent(profile, limit)
+  # retrieves the latest +limit+ articles, sorted from the most recent to the
+  # oldest.
+  def self.recent(limit)
     options = { :limit => limit, :order => 'created_on' }
-    options[:conditions] = { :profile_id => profile.id } if profile
     self.find(:all, options)
   end
 
diff --git a/app/models/profile.rb b/app/models/profile.rb
index 27ce483..0700105 100644
--- a/app/models/profile.rb
+++ b/app/models/profile.rb
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ class Profile < ActiveRecord::Base
   # +limit+ is the maximum number of documents to be returned. It defaults to
   # 10.
   def recent_documents(limit = 10)
-    self.articles.recent(self, limit)
+    self.articles.recent(limit)
   end
 
   class << self
diff --git a/test/unit/article_test.rb b/test/unit/article_test.rb
index ce68b3b..da7255f 100644
--- a/test/unit/article_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/article_test.rb
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ class ArticleTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     end
   end
 
-  should 'search for recent documents for a given profile' do
+  should 'search for recent documents' do
     first = profile.articles.build(:name => 'first'); first.save!
     second = profile.articles.build(:name => 'second'); second.save!
     third = profile.articles.build(:name => 'third'); third.save!
@@ -142,11 +142,8 @@ class ArticleTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     other_profile = create_user('otherpropfile').person
     other_first = other_profile.articles.build(:name => 'first'); other_first.save!
     
-    assert_equal [first,second,third], Article.recent(profile, 3)
-    
-    assert_equal [first,second,third,forth,fifth], Article.recent(profile, 10)
-
-    assert_equal [first,second,third,forth,fifth,other_first], Article.recent(nil, 10)
+    assert_equal [first,second,third], Article.recent(3)
+    assert_equal [first,second,third,forth,fifth,other_first], Article.recent(10)
   end
 
   should 'provied proper descriptions' do
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