Laravel Confide not triggering eloquent.saving - php

Question

I'm using zizaco/confide in combination with cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable.
eloquent-sluggable uses Events::listen('eloquent.saving*') for generating the slug while/before saving.
// Cviebrock\EloquentSluggable\SluggableServiceProvider:55
public function registerEvents()
{
$app = $this->app;
$app['events']->listen('eloquent.saving*', function($model) use ($app)
{
$app['sluggable']->make($model);
});
}
Since I switched to Confide for authentication the slugs are not getting generated.
My user model is simply class User extends ConfideUser. Switching to class User extends Ardent or User extends Eloquent the event eloquent.saving is getting triggered fine.
I'm not shure if this is a bug or I'm missing something.
My Model:
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Zizaco\Confide\ConfideUser;
class User extends ConfideUser
{
public $autoPurgeRedundantAttributes = true;
/**
* The database table used by the model.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $table = 'users';
/**
* Soft delete
*
* #var boolean
*/
protected $softDelete = true;
/**
* The attributes excluded from the model's JSON form.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $hidden = array('password');
/**
* The attributes that are mass assignable.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $fillable = array(
'nickname',
'password',
'email',
'deleted_at',
'disabled',
'firstname',
'lastname',
'birthday',
// needed by ardent
'email_confirmation',
'password_confirmation'
);
public static $rules = array(
'firstname' => 'required',
'email' => 'required|email|confirmed|unique:users',
'email_confirmation' => 'required',
'nickname' => 'required|min:2|unique:users',
'birthday' => 'date:d.m.Y|before:now',
'password' => 'required|min:5|confirmed',
'password_confirmation' => 'required'
);
public $imageSizes = array(
array(64, 64),
array(250, 250)
);
public static $sluggable = array(
'build_from' => 'nickname',
'save_to' => 'slug',
);
/**
* Roles
*
* #return object
*/
public function roles()
{
return $this->belongsToMany(
'Role',
'role_user'
)
->withTimestamps();;
}
}

Answer 1

Seems to me like this one is a bug: https://github.com/Zizaco/confide/issues/179
As a temporary workaround you can wrap the beforeSave() method in your Model without returning anything (!):
public function beforeSave($forced = false)
{
parent::beforeSave($forced);
}