Database Seeding in Laravel 5.1 - php

Question

I am using laravel 5.1. I am trying to run database seeding command.
My table name is users
My migration file is as below
2015_11_09_194832_create_users_table.php
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreateUsersTable extends Migration
{
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* #return void
*/
public function up()
{
Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->string('email')->unique();
$table->string('password', 60);
$table->rememberToken();
$table->timestamps();
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*
* #return void
*/
public function down()
{
Schema::drop('users');
}
}
DatabaseSeeder.php
<?php
use App\User;
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
/**
* Run the database seeds.
*
* #return void
*/
public function run()
{
Model::unguard();
$this->call(UsersTableSeeder::class);
Model::reguard();
}
}
UsersTableSeeder.php
<?php
// DatabaseSeeder.php
use App\User;
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class UsersTableSeeder extends Seeder
{
/**
* Run the database seeds.
*
* #return void
*/
public function run()
{
Model::unguard();
DB::table('users');
$users = array(
['name' => 'Ryan Chenkie', 'email' => 'ryanchenkie#gmail.com', 'password' => Hash::make('secret')],
['name' => 'Chris Sevilleja', 'email' => 'chris#scotch.io', 'password' => Hash::make('secret')],
['name' => 'Holly Lloyd', 'email' => 'holly#scotch.io', 'password' => Hash::make('secret')],
['name' => 'Adnan Kukic', 'email' => 'adnan#scotch.io', 'password' => Hash::make('secret')],
);
// Loop through each user above and create the record for them in the database
foreach ($users as $user)
{
User::create($user);
}
Model::reguard();
}
}
While I am trying to run seeding command php artisan db:seed I am getting below error.
[ReflectionException]
Class UsersTableSeeder does not exist
Can anyone help me in this regard ??

Answer 1

I've run in to this issue a few time when I've added seeders either in a new project or to an existing project where I want to add some data to test.
Both jedrzej.kurylo and Alex were on the right track, composer dump-autoload which will regenerate your autoload files and include the seeder(s) you've just added.