Merge pull request #127 from cagov/updating_docs

small edits to the setup and writing documentation docs

docs/setup.md

@@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ This will depend on your operating system and shell. For Linux and Mac OS system
 as well as users of Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) it's often set in
 `~/.zshrc`, `~/.bashrc`, or `~/.bash_profile`.
 
-If you use zsh or bash, open your shell configuration file, and add the lines:
+If you use zsh or bash, open your shell configuration file, and add the following lines:
+
+**Default Transformer role**
 
 ```bash
 export SNOWFLAKE_ACCOUNT=<account-locator>
@@ -83,7 +85,21 @@ export SNOWFLAKE_ROLE=TRANSFORMER_DEV
 export SNOWFLAKE_WAREHOUSE=TRANSFORMING_XS_DEV
 ```
 
-Then open a new-terminal and verify that the environment variables are set.
+This will enable you to perform transforming activities which is needed for dbt.
+Open a new terminal and verify that the environment variables are set.
+
+**Switch to Loader role**
+
+```bash
+export SNOWFLAKE_ACCOUNT=<account-locator>
+export SNOWFLAKE_USER=<your-username>
+export SNOWFLAKE_PASSWORD=<your-password>
+export SNOWFLAKE_ROLE=LOADER_DEV
+export SNOWFLAKE_WAREHOUSE=LOADING_XS_DEV
+```
+
+This will enable you to perform loading activities and is needed to which is needed for Airflow or Fivetran.
+Again, open a new terminal and verify that the environment variables are set.
 
 ## Configure AWS and GCP (optional)
 

docs/writing-documentation.md

@@ -9,13 +9,7 @@ and are authored using [markdown](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing
 ## Local Development
 
 To write documentation for this project, make sure that the build tools are installed.
-In a Python environment run:
-
-```bash
-python -m pip install -r requirements-docs.txt
-```
-
-You should then be able to start a local server for the docs:
+In a Python environment and in the data-infrastructure repo, you should be able to start a local server for the docs by running:
 
 ```bash
 mkdocs serve