Laravel 4: Working with relationships in seeds

Question

Is there an easy way to manage many-to-many relationships in the new seeds feature of L4?

One way would be to make a seed for the pivot table, but I would be a lot of wo

Answer 1

Seeding is for simple information, test data and static information. I wouldn't recommend using it to handle relationships. Personally, I only use it for 2 or 3 record per table, to help test my application.

When developing your application, think about working on the data entry (admin) area first then the front end. That way you can easily add test data.