I don't see why you need to integrate with sqlalchemy at all though

Something that I would like to see is to see good support defaults

In my mind, defaults come from 2 places: a- validated get/post data that is redisplayed b- application generated info ( db pull? )

right now, its a major PITA to integrate defaults into the 'magic' rails-like helpers

if you could offer some sort of control on defaults, I would convert instantly.

i like how this uses odering of fields... this reminds me of the Perl form parsing class I wrote and still use...