Laravel 5.1 Entrust - Setting up first roles/permissions

Question

I installed entrust on my laravel 5.1. I'm wondering what's the best way to create your first roles?

I see some people creating them with routes but this doesn't seem like a clean way to me. Should I just seed my first roles directly into my database or is there a better way?

Answer 1

In my opinion, this is up to personal preference. As you mentioned already, using a database seeder is a perfectly reasonable solution.

If you really want to contain and separate the code that initializes the roles/permissions, or anything else you need in your application, you can also opt to create a custom Artisan command within Laravel that does the initial setup tasks you need to do. With this method, you can separate your initial production set-up and you can still utilize your database seeders without having to modify them for testing purposes.

Resources:

• http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/artisan#writing-commands
• https://laracasts.com/lessons/commands-101 (Laravel 4 but still good)