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Now we tell Harper to run this as an application:

```bash
harperdb dev . # tell Harper cli to run current directory as an application in dev mode
harperdb dev ./ # tell Harper cli to run current directory as an application in dev mode
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Are people actually confusing this? It's in a code block.

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Also, why doesn't the project directory default to the current directory? Then we wouldn't need to specify the dot.

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Are people actually confusing this?

People seem to be fine with it. It is the robots that seem to be confounded by the idea of . meaning something other punctuation.

Also, why doesn't the project directory default to the current directory?

Agreed HarperFast/harper#53

Anyway, I am inclined to actually abandon/close this PR. I was trying several different things to help here, and this is actually probably an issue that the robots will get better at, we will get better at, and changing this isn't really that important.

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If you are using the Fabric UI, you can click "Restart Cluster" to apply these schema changes.
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This will ensure that new records must have these properties with these types.

Because we ran `harperdb dev .` earlier (dev mode), Harper is now monitoring the contents of our application directory for changes and reloading when they occur. This means that once we save our schema file with these new attributes, Harper will automatically reload our application, read `my-app/schema.graphql` and update the `Dog` table and attributes we just defined. The dev mode will also ensure that any logging or errors are immediately displayed in the console (rather only in the log file).
Because we ran `harperdb dev ./` earlier (dev mode), Harper is now monitoring the contents of our application directory for changes and reloading when they occur. This means that once we save our schema file with these new attributes, Harper will automatically reload our application, read `my-app/schema.graphql` and update the `Dog` table and attributes we just defined. The dev mode will also ensure that any logging or errors are immediately displayed in the console (rather only in the log file).

If you are running in Fabric, again, you can click "Restart Cluster" to apply any changes. You can navigate to the "Databases" page to see your new table and add records to it.

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