Clarified about where to create .dbt Folder

[TheCedarPrince]

Added some notes about where to create the .dbt folder. Didn't know the proper solution for Windows off the top of my noggin however. Also, does the .dbt folder have to live at root?

[katy-sadowski]

Thanks for this!

[katy-sadowski]

Regarding location of .dbt, it does not have to be at root. Maybe we could link out to this page for more info? https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/core/connect-data-platform/connection-profiles

[lawrenceadams]

Regarding location of .dbt, it does not have to be at root. Maybe we could link out to this page for more info? https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/core/connect-data-platform/connection-profiles

I agree, I tend to leave the profiles.yml file in the root of the working directory - especially when using duckdb and not having a risk of leaking credentials -rather than at my $HOME/.dbt, and the docs hint to this

dbt will search the current working directory for the profiles.yml file and will default to the ~/.dbt/ directory if not found.

In fairness, this is unclear for a complete newcomer to dbt/dbt-synthea so I think is a good thing to add in.

@TheCedarPrince maybe it's worth modifying to say it can be in the root of the working directory, rather than in $HOME/.dbt? I'd argue the former is more straightforward

[TheCedarPrince]

Sure! I'll tweak the PR later today -- but what is the command to jump to root on Windows? dir ... somthing ?

[lawrenceadams]

Good question - I think it is cd %HOMEPATH% - but refuse to do any development work on Windows without using WSL so I have not tested! 😆

[TheCedarPrince]

@lawrenceadams and @katy-sadowski , fixed up the language here.

[katy-sadowski]

i think we should actually be more explicit about the options (or, just link out to the dbt docs for this): https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/core/connect-data-platform/connection-profiles#advanced-customizing-a-profile-directory

and either way, let's add .dbt and profiles.yml to .gitignore?