Released Today: ColdFusion on Wheels 0.9.4

[Chris Peters]

From the Wheels Blog. Congrats everyone!
http://www.cfwheels.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/9/15/Released-Today-ColdFusion-on-Wheels-094

We've just released ColdFusion on Wheels version 0.9.4 today on
CFWheels.org. Thanks to Per Djurner, Tony Petruzzi, and James Gibson
for contributing new features and improving the stability of the
framework. And thanks to the community for feedback and supporting our
efforts. Our presence is really starting to grow.
Improvements

* There is a new labelPlacement argument on all form helpers that
gives you more control over the label tag.
* The error email now includes more information and also uses the
global defaults you have set on sendEmail().
* When linking you can now leave out the controller and action
arguments and the link will point to the current page.
* The rendering functions now accept a returnAs argument that you
can set to "string" when you want to return the result for more
processing instead of just displaying it right away.
* … and more minor changes and bug fixes.

New Functionality

* All finder methods (findByKey(), findAll(), etc.) can now return
either an object, multiple objects in an array, or a query result set.
You can decide what you want back by setting the returnAs argument to
"object", "objects" or "query". The convention is still to return an
object when dealing with single records and queries when dealing with
multiples.
* You can now specify a calculated property (maps to a SQL
statement instead of directly to a table column) on a model that you
can then reference in finders (selecting, ordering by it, etc).
* The includePartial() function can now handle an array of objects
(similar to the way it can iterate over a query).
* You can pass in a field name in the group argument of
includePartial(), and it will call the partial once for each group and
pass in a sub query.
* When specifying a hasMany association, you can now inform Wheels
to create a shortcut to an additional model through a join table (very
useful when dealing with many to many relationships).
* You can now edit multiple objects of the same class in the same
form, Wheels will automatically create nested structs in the params
struct on the receiving end.

Documentation Improvements

Along with this release, I'm personally excited to announce that all
of the chapter listings are hyperlinked in the Documentation section.

Here's what's new:

* Calculated Properties
* Form Helpers and Showing Errors
* Creating Your Own View Helpers
* Miscellaneous Helpers

We also added information to and improved the following chapters:

* Object Validation
* Object Callbacks
* Object Relational Mapping
* Associations
* Reading Records
* Partials

Now is the time to try out ColdFusion on Wheels if you've been on the
fence. We're pretty much locked on features until we release 1.0 in a
couple months.

[wfisk]

Congratulations to Per and everyone else involved for all the
changes. ColdFusion on Wheels is certainly progressing at an amazing
pace. I do appeciate all the new stuff I just need to find the time
to try it all out!

Thanks again everyone.

William