Populating a database in a Laravel migration file

Question

I\'m just learning Laravel, and have a working migration file creating a users table. I am trying to populate a user record as part of the migration:

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Answer 1

Here is a very good explanation of why using Laravel's Database Seeder is preferable to using Migrations: https://web.archive.org/web/20171018135835/http://laravelbook.com/laravel-database-seeding/

Although, following the instructions on the official documentation is a much better idea because the implementation described at the above link doesn't seem to work and is incomplete. http://laravel.com/docs/migrations#database-seeding