Along with the 0.8 release of Wheels came a whole slew of new chapters in our Documentation. If you were looking into learning a little bit more about the framework over the weekend, the Docs are a great place to start.

For those of you who have been following along since before 0.8, here's what's new:

• Frameworks and Wheels
• Obfuscating URLs
• Event Handlers
• Column Statistics
• Dynamic Finders
• Getting Paginated Data
• Displaying Links for Pagination
• Switching Environments

All other chapters are updated for 0.8 as well.

As for the future of documentation, here are some of my hopes and dreams:

• Documentation at the function level for the Wheels API (which is done for the most part... I just need to get it formatted and on the site!)
• A better navigation system for the Docs themselves
• A "Livedocs" format akin to how Adobe does it

Please let us know if we're not clear about something in the Docs or if you have any ideas!

As the project has been transitioning to "one guy doing all the work" to a true community effort, we've had a slight amount of growing pains. Of course, this is a great problem to have. But obviously, we need a little bit of structure.

In light of this, I've posted the first version of our process and guidelines for contributing to Wheels:

• Coding Guidelines
• Documentation Guidelines

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