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Laravel seed after migrating

Is there something I can put in my migrations to automatically seed the table with test data once the migration has completed?

Or do you have to seed separately?

Solution

  • You can call migrate:refresh with the --seed option to automatically seed after the migrations are complete:

    php artisan migrate:refresh --seed

    This will rollback and re-run all your migrations and run all seeders afterwards.

    Just as a little extra, you can also always use Artisan::call() to run an artisan command from inside the application:

    Artisan::call('db:seed');

    or

    Artisan::call('db:seed', array('--class' => 'YourSeederClass'));

    if you want specific seeder class.