In this post, I will explain how to create a Twitter bot in Laravel. This app will send random tweets (selected from a database) periodically (each hour) and automatically, through the Laravel task scheduling. This project doesn’t have a graphical user interface.
You can download or clone the code from this GitHub repository.
Cuando estoy en un entorno de test con aplicaciones en Laravel (esto es extrapolable a cualquier otro entorno de desarrollo y/o framework que disponga de una interfaz de línea o CLI), a veces ejecuto comandos cuya ejecución puede llevar bastante tiempo.
Un ejemplo claro es una migración con un seeder con un alto número de seeds, para probar la aplicación con un entorno sobrecargado de datos.
En este tipo de casos lo ideal es poder dejar el comando en background y poder cerrar la consola si es necesario.
I use Laravel Homestead to develop on two machines. I use it because with this solution I have the same development environment in all my machines and in all machines of my coworkers.
Last Tuesday, with the monthly Microsoft update (I suppose), the HTTP responses starts to become very slow, with TTFB (time to the first byte) from 4 to 10 seconds.
If you are using Laravel Homestead and you want to use Laravel Dusk to test your application, you can find some problems.
If you are installing a new Larevel project and you get this error in the navigator
RuntimeException in compiled.php line 13506:
The only supported ciphers are AES-128-CBC and AES-256-CBC with the correct key lengths.
I was starting Homestead, a Vagrant Virtual Machine and I get this error
Laravel 5.2+ give us a way to scaffold all of the routes, controllers and views we need for authentication with one command:
php artisan make:auth
In this post I explain how to add some useful Laravel bash alias in the bash shell, so you haven’t to type this long commands.
I use this alias in the Homestead VM Vagrant machine.
Some Laravel ACL (Access control list) solutions
If you are using the Laravel factories to populate the database with fake elements, when you add a new factory, v.gr. in the “\database\factories\ModelFactory.php”, ant try to execute it with the tinker app