Speeding up Development with Generators

Step 1 - Update composer.json

Edit your project's composer.json to require way/generators.

"require": {
    "laravel/framework": "4.0.*",
    "way/generators": "dev-master"
},
"minimum-stability": "dev"

Step 2 - Update your project with composer.

$ composer update

Step 3 - Add the service provider

Open app/config/app.php and adding the new line to the bottom of the providers array.

'Way\Generators\GeneratorsServiceProvider',

Now, the artisan command will have a bunch of new generate commands for you to use.

Here's a synopsis of each new command.

• php artisan generate:migration - This expands the Laravel's built-in migration generator by allowing you to specify fields on the command line and automatically creating the schema for you.
• php artisan generate:model - This creates a boilerplate for an Eloquent model.
• php artisan generate:controller - This creates a boilerplate for a Controller.
• php artisan generate:seed - This generates a seed file for a table for you. All you need to do is add the data to seed.
• php artisan generate:view - This will create a boilerplate view for you.
• php artisan generate:resource - This is a powerful generator. It calls all the other generators to create everything needed for a resource.
• php artisan generate:scaffold - Like generate:resource but creates all of the boilerplate for listing, editing, creating, and viewing a resource.
• php artisan generate:form - This creates a form for you based on a model.
• php artisan generate:test - This creates a boilerplate unit test file for you.
• php artisan generate:pivot - This generates the schema for a pivot table between two related tables.