Laravel TDD with External Database example

An example laravel project using TDD with an external database.

The article on this can be found here.

Installation

Clone this repo

git clone git@github.com:AlanHolmes/tdd-with-external-db-example.git

Boot up the docker container

(skip this step if you aren't using docker)

docker-compose up -d

Env file

• Copy .env.example to .env
• Change the DB_* and DB_EXTERNAL_* settings as required

Composer

Run composer install or if don't have the correct version of php (^7.1.3), run it inside the docker container.

docker-compose exec php composer install

Final Step

Run php artisan key:generate to set APP_KEY

Or again, inside the docker container.

docker-compose exec php artisan key:generate

Running Unit Tests

Now that you are all setup, you can run the unit tests within the docker container.

docker-compose exec php php ./vendor/bin/phpunit

License

This example is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.