The issue with the approach above is that you are coupling your schema with one particular database and the schema is designed to represent any data source, which may not even be a database in the first place. We explore some of those things here: Ecto’s insert_all and schemaless queries « Plataformatec Blog
My concern with using something such as shortcuts is that people will forget those basic tenets schemas and repositories were built on. So I would rather define modules such as MyApp.Accounts.get_user(id), which is the direction Phoenix is taking, without a need to tie repositories directly into schemas.
