Seeding so you can see how your app looks

The wishlist area we made previously is really tough for me or a product owner to sign off on without some data in there. What I will do in this recipe is show how to seed that area of your website so you can then have a more realistic look at the feature with data.

Getting ready

Just follow the previous recipe called Using factories for migration and tests. After you are done there, the page /wish_lists should look like this:

How to do it…

1. The scaffolding from the previous recipe created a new file called database/seeds/WishListTableSeeder.php. If you're not using scaffolding, you can easily make these on your own by typing:

   >php artisan make:seeder WishListTableSeeder
   

2. Edit that file so it looks like the following:

   

3. Now we need to include that in the core DatabaseSeeder file database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php:

   

4. Now we are ready to run the seeder:

   >php artisan migrate:refresh --seed 
   

5. Now log in and check out that user interface:

   

How it works…

Alright...