development documentation is unclear on whether or not i need a .env or not, just to put env vars there if it do

but do i?????

ok i followed all steps and db:setup fails to connect to postrgresql

yes it's running

@squirrelbutt how will your app know how to connect to the DB without a .env file?

@datn it uses a local socket apparently??

this documentation is confusing ok

i'm just tryin to set up local development

@squirrelbutt huh! okay, 'twas just an honest question meant to help. I will thrill to your solution when you find it and cheer you on to further victories!

@datn i'm just trying to make sense of the dev docs and it's just really not making any :( help is appreciated

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Development-guide.md

@squirrelbutt I see that the docs say the connection is a network (not socket) connection, localhost to DB using ident. but I would guess you still need the default .env file.

@datn and what do i base that off of? .env.production-sample?