npx @better-auth/cli generate logs weird stuff on the console when run and fails

I just upgrade to

1.3.3

1.3.3

1.3.3

1.3.3 and for good measure I wanted to execute the cli comman

generate

generate

generate

generate and noticed that is logging some code in the terminal (added a screenshot, because it's too much text) and throws a prisma error at me.

The error makes no sense to me. It says the URL must start with "file:", but the url actually does start with file: and the error logs are even showing the line where file: is set

Has anyone else encountered this issue?

PrismaClientInitializationError: error: Error validating datasource `db`: the URL must start with the protocol `file:`.
  -->  schema.prisma:14
   | 
13 |   provider = "sqlite"
14 |   url      = "file:./data.db"
   | 

Validation Error Count: 1
    at r (/Users/duki/IdeaProjects/simple-recipe-app/node_modules/@prisma-app/client/runtime/library.js:115:2770) {
  clientVersion: '6.12.0',
  errorCode: 'P1012',
  retryable: undefined
}

PrismaClientInitializationError: error: Error validating datasource `db`: the URL must start with the protocol `file:`.
  -->  schema.prisma:14
   | 
13 |   provider = "sqlite"
14 |   url      = "file:./data.db"
   | 

Validation Error Count: 1
    at r (/Users/duki/IdeaProjects/simple-recipe-app/node_modules/@prisma-app/client/runtime/library.js:115:2770) {
  clientVersion: '6.12.0',
  errorCode: 'P1012',
  retryable: undefined
}

PrismaClientInitializationError: error: Error validating datasource `db`: the URL must start with the protocol `file:`.
  -->  schema.prisma:14
   | 
13 |   provider = "sqlite"
14 |   url      = "file:./data.db"
   | 

Validation Error Count: 1
    at r (/Users/duki/IdeaProjects/simple-recipe-app/node_modules/@prisma-app/client/runtime/library.js:115:2770) {
  clientVersion: '6.12.0',
  errorCode: 'P1012',
  retryable: undefined
}

PrismaClientInitializationError: error: Error validating datasource `db`: the URL must start with the protocol `file:`.
  -->  schema.prisma:14
   | 
13 |   provider = "sqlite"
14 |   url      = "file:./data.db"
   | 

Validation Error Count: 1
    at r (/Users/duki/IdeaProjects/simple-recipe-app/node_modules/@prisma-app/client/runtime/library.js:115:2770) {
  clientVersion: '6.12.0',
  errorCode: 'P1012',
  retryable: undefined
}

Solution

AH! Found the issue! I had to add

dotenvx run -f .env --

dotenvx run -f .env --

dotenvx run -f .env --

dotenvx run -f .env -- in front of the generate command.

Jump to solution

Ping•7/24/25, 1:22 PM

@Duki try using file://

Ping•7/24/25, 1:23 PM

Also i dont know if using the file protocol supports relative paths, but I guess we will find out lol

PPing @Duki try using file://

DukiOP•7/24/25, 1:39 PM

I'm still getting the same error. When I run prisma generateprisma generate myself it runs through without any error. It only happens when using BA's generate. It has worked before tho

DukiOP•7/24/25, 1:42 PM

Also doesnt work without a relative path "file://dev.db""file://dev.db"

Solution

Duki•7/24/25, 1:53 PM

AH! Found the issue! I had to add

dotenvx run -f .env --

dotenvx run -f .env --

in front of the generate command.

DukiOP•7/24/25, 1:55 PM

because initially I had this in my

schema.prisma

schema.prisma

file:

datasource db {
  provider = "sqlite"
  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
}

datasource db {
  provider = "sqlite"
  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
}

I changed it to a hardcoded value, because I thought it would be easier that way, but apparently BA doesn't use the same prisma client as the one generated via prisma generateprisma generate and somehow still had the version with the env("DATABASE_URL")env("DATABASE_URL") in it, instead of the hard coded one

DukiOP•7/24/25, 1:57 PM

Which is weird, because the error that it logs are coming from the newly generated