Laravel/Eloquent: Fatal error: Call to a member function connection() on a non-object

Question

I\'m building a package in Laravel 4 but am getting a non-object error when attempting to access the db from which seems to be a properly instantiated object. Here\'s the setup:

Answer 1

In case you're working with Lumen, you may occur identical problem. In this case just uncomment:

// $app->withFacades();

// $app->withEloquent();

in bootstrap\app.php