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Will validate a route pattern against the current route.

It truncates all tables and then it runs all seeders available.

Gulp is a javascript taskrunner (like Grunt) using Nodejs. You can use it to automatically run PHPUnit tests on saved files. Ex: Save Foo.php and run FooTest.php automatically. Link to gist: https://gist.github.com/varghesejacob/56e2637dcb5cd2bc4b51

If you have an array like: array( array('key' => 'value'), array('key' => 'anotherValue'), array('key' => 'sameValue'), array('key' => 'sameValue') ); and you want to make sure that you cant have 'key' with same value twice i was searching a native way to do it, but couldn't find one - so this is my solution:

Perform pattern based CSRF filter on all post, put, patch, and delete requests. Just add this code snippet at the top of routes.php

When saving/updating a model you might want to get a JSON response that includes some relationship data as well.

Response::xml macro

This stumped me for some time and after digging around I found it works great, the uploaded file can be removed from the server as well as the database entry. works well for file sharing and image sharing sites.

Generate navigation menu's that look clean using a custom class HTML::nav(); Automatically set active state, use conditions to display links, and optionally pass only one value for both url and link name if you want to type a little less