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Organization and User have a many-to-many association through Relationship . Initially I implemented this a 1-to-many association, which worked but now I need it to become a many-to-many through association. So I created the Relationship model and changed the association in the model files. Organization accepts nested attributes for User as in my app I have a joined signup form for the two. Also, I use it in my seeds file: Organization.create!(name: "name", ...).users.create(email: "email@email.com", ...) This worked when it was a 1-to-many association but now it is a many-to-many through

I start with a seeded database and am trying to reseed the database between unit tests in Laravel 5. In Laravel 4 I understand you could simply use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan and run the commands Artisan::call('migrate'); Artisan::call('db:seed'); or you supposedly could do: $this->seed('DatabaseSeeder'); before every test. In Laravel 5 this appears to have been replaced by use DatabaseMigrations; or use DatabaseTransactions; I have tried using these and have managed to get the tests to migrate the database; however, it doesn't actually reseed the data in the tables. I have read

I'm currently seeding data with Sequelize.js and using hard coded values for association IDs. This is not ideal because I really should be able to do this dynamically right? For example, associating users and profiles with a "has one" and "belongs to" association. I don't necessarily want to seed users with a hard coded profileId . I'd rather do that in the profiles seeds after I create profiles. Adding the profileId to a user dynamically once profiles have been created. Is this possible and the normal convention when working with Sequelize.js? Or is it more common to just hard code

I've been using Laravel's migrations with the path parameter like so: Artisan::call('migrate', array('--path' => 'path/to/my/Migrations')); Is there anyway I can run the seed command in the same way? I have a number of seed files I want to use but I don't want to run them all at the same time. Any advice appreciated. Thanks Instead of --path you can set --class with namespace to Seeder class. Artisan::call('db:seed', [ '--class' => 'Namespace\Seeds\DatabaseSeeder' ]); This work on Laravel 5.1 Seeding only Artisan::call('db:seed'); Re-run all migration under specified path & run seeds as well

I have a database seed file: class ContactTableSeeder extends Seeder { public function run() { $contacts = array( array( 'first_name' => 'Test', 'last_name' => 'Contact', 'email' => 'test.contact@emai.com', 'telephone_number' => '0111345685', 'address' => 'Address', 'city' => 'City', 'postcode' => 'postcode', 'position' => 'Director', 'account_id' => 1 ) ); foreach ($contacts as $contact) { Contact::create($contact); } } } When I run php artisan migrate:refresh --seed it seeds the database and creates the relevant record in the contacts table, except that it does not fill the fields with any

I am trying to seed a database using the context.AddOrUpdate method, but the problem is that I need to make the inserted data unique based on a multi column index. [Table("climbing_grades")] public class ClimbingGrade : EntityBase { /// <summary> /// The name of the climbing grade, e.g.: 7a, VII, etc. /// </summary> [Index("IX_Name_GradeType", 1, IsUnique = true)] public string Name { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Tries to display the average difficulty of the described grade. /// Matching the different grades can be difficult because its always /// a subjective rating and there exists no norm