Tag "models" tricks

Here's a simple little scope that you can use to get a random collection of Model objects from the database.

Handling findOrFail exceptions

Creating a form macro is very easy and awesome for creating your own UI elements. The original downside I found was losing the automatic model binding from Form::model(). A user on StackOverflow helped solve the problem for me.

I spent a good hour trying to figure out why my Eloquent relationship wasn't working when I found out it was because of the difference between `$model->relationship->value` and `$model->relationship()->value`.