Laravel 5 : Use different database for testing and local

Question

How does one change database for development and testing on local system without editing the .env file each time?

I have found it quite inconvenient to

Answer 1

You can use a different .env file for each type of test. You can modify your tests/functional.suite.yml and tests/unit.suite.yml something like this:

class_name: FunctionalTester
modules:
    enabled: [Laravel5, FunctionalHelper, Asserts]
    config:
        Laravel5:
            environment_file: .env.testing

And this:

class_name: UnitTester
modules:
    enabled: [Asserts, UnitHelper, Laravel5]
    config:
        Laravel5:
            environment_file: .env.unittesting

Or you can simply modify your phpunit.xml and add environment vars like @Tijmen did above.