Hello! Newbie to elementary here. I am trying to get elementary up and running, and here are my steps:

dbt deps
pip install 'elementary-data[snowflake]'
dbt run --select elementary
dbt test
edr report

Unfortunately, the report says

no tests

, I feel like I am missing a step or two. Can someone please help me get started? Eventually, I woudl like to have this incorporated with our github actions daily refresh and send a report to slack but I would like to see it working in my local environment first.

hi fellow newbie! my suspicion here is that you've started a new dbt project for elementary? elementary is using pre and post run hooks in existing dbt projects to execute tests.

when I give the

dbt test

command, it runs all the model tests that I would expect it to run.. and there are elementary tests that are in that list too. let me get you an example.. but while I do that, perhaps you can share the steps you are running? does

dbt run {all models}

need to happen? I am only running

dbt test

i didn't have to, but my models were already materialized before installing elementary. i did run the recommended

dbt run --select elementary

as you did to seed the initial elementary tables. looks like there's a Troubleshooting page for your issue. i'd be curious to see if your test results made it to

elementary_test_results

since you confirmed it found the tests, then escalate as needed!

Figured out! My dbt project has several targets dev/prod/dev personalized etc. Elementary has a flag called ‘—profile-target’ which needs to be set to the same