The implication here being that the Ruby folks mostly care about surface convenience, with not even using parser transforms to provide parameterized modules (re

The implication here being that the Ruby folks mostly care about surface convenience, with not even using parser transforms to provide parameterized modules (remember, one of the reasons people laud Elixir so much is its metaprogramming support) to overload the language a bit and provide ActiveRecord-like patterns being enough. It's not really an indictment on Erlang, though. The situation you present is unwinnable.