Time travel in tests

[dmoreno]

Carbon library has a very useful and easy to use feature to travel in time inside your tests:

$knownDate = Carbon::create(2001, 5, 21, 12); // create testing date
Carbon::setTestNow($knownDate);               // set the mock (of course this could be a real mock object)

This works with Laravel in most pieces of code, but not all. Because php built function time() is used 16 times in Laravel code base (I'm having issues with Cookie expire time generation).

As Carbon is a Laravel dependency, I thinks is possible to replace time() calls for Carbon equivalent. This way, time travel would be possible in Laravel tests. I think this would be awesome!

What do you think?

[themsaid]

Thank you for posting this, I wish I had known about it earlier in my career :D

[dmoreno]

@themsaid, thanks! good work!

[themsaid]

@dmoreno :)