Cube CLI - Paradime

The Cube CLI is a tool that complements your dbt development workflow. While dbt handles data transformation and modeling in your warehouse, Cube CLI enables you to create semantic modeling layers on top of your dbt models. In Paradime, you can develop and validate semantic models to create business-friendly data interfaces, complete with metrics, dimensions, and access controls, directly from the terminal.

What you can do

Build semantic modeling layers on top of your dbt models.
Create business-friendly data interfaces with metrics, dimensions, and access controls.
Validate your Cube project models for errors from the Paradime terminal.

PrerequisitesParadime requires your Cube project to follow this specific folder structure for organizing models and views where the cube folder is at the root of your repository:

cube
|_models
 |_cubes
 |_views
...

Commands

Make sure to run any of the below command from the cube project directory.In the Paradime terminal use:

cd cube

`validate`

Checks Cube project models for validation errors. Syntax

npx cubejs-cli validate

Example Output

​What you can do

​Commands

​validate

What you can do

Commands

`validate`