Laravel Seeder for Different Environments

laravel, laravel-4, seed

Solution

I just tried this quickly and got it working, so I'll show you how I set it up and hopefully that helps.

app/database/seeds/local/UsersTableSeeder.php

<?php namespace Seeds\Local;

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder as Seeder;

Class UsersTableSeeder extends Seeder {
    public function run () {
        dd('local');
    }
}

app/database/seeds/production/UsersTableSeeder.php

<?php namespace Seeds\Production;

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder as Seeder;

Class UsersTableSeeder extends Seeder {
    public function run () {
        dd('production');
    }
}

app/database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php

<?php

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder {

    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run(){
        Eloquent::unguard();

        // Load production seeder
        if (App::Environment() === 'production')
        {
            $this->call('Seeds\Production\UsersTableSeeder');
        }

        // Load local seeder
        if (App::Environment() === 'local')
        {
            $this->call('Seeds\Local\UsersTableSeeder');
        }
    }

}

And don't forget to run composer dump-autoload. Hope that helps.

Problem

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