Laravel 5.1: Enable SQLite foreign key constraints

Question

In SQLite, foreign key constraints are disabled by default.

What\'s the best way to configure Laravel 5.1\'s SQLite database connection to enable foreign key constra

Answer 1

Since I only want to use this in my tests, but in all tests, I ended up with a simple implementation in the Tests\TestCase class like this:

 abstract class TestCase extends BaseTestCase
 {
        use CreatesApplication;

        protected function setUp()
        {
            parent::setUp();

            $this->enableForeignKeys();
        }

        /**
         * Enables foreign keys.
         *
         * @return void
         */
        public function enableForeignKeys()
        {
            $db = app()->make('db');
            $db->getSchemaBuilder()->enableForeignKeyConstraints();
        }
}

This works like a charm :-)