I sometimes find that it would be useful to use artisan tinker to play with the sorts of data that Faker will generate in a Laravel factory. Unfortunately I don’t do it often enough to always remember the correct way to do it, since the obvious new Faker\Generator doesn’t work. So for future reference, what you need is:
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I recently added the Laravel-Localization package (with Laravel 5.2) to a project I’m working on. Initial setup went smoothly, and I was impressed with how well things worked essentially out of the box. Then I tried to test my routes. I had previously made a test case that ran through all of my public routes and asserted … [Read more…]
I just ran through Laravel’s intermediate quickstart tutorial. On the whole it was rather well put together and worked with as little or as much copying and pasting as you felt like using. Here I’m just recording a few notes for future reference about non-obvious things I encountered. Error messages for simple typos One interesting … [Read more…]