I sometimes find that it would be useful to use\u00a0artisan tinker<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to play with the sorts of data that Faker<\/a> will generate in a Laravel factory<\/a>. Unfortunately I don’t do it often enough to always remember the correct way to do it, since the obvious\u00a0new Faker\\Generator<\/span>\u00a0doesn’t work. So for future reference, what you need is:<\/p>\n

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