//setup Eloquent connection
$capsule = new \Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager;

//mysql
$capsule->addConnection($container->get(‘settings’)[‘mysql’], ‘mysql’);

//mssql
foreach ($container[‘settings’][‘mssql_connections’] as $connection_name => $connection_data) {
$capsule->addConnection($connection_data, $connection_name);
}

$capsule->setAsGlobal();
$capsule->bootEloquent();

$container[‘connections’] = $capsule;

Then in my models I set the connection I want them to use:

class MyModel extends Model
{
protected $connection = ‘mysql’;
}

In case I want to use the Query Builder:

$conn = $this->container[‘connections’]->getConnection(‘mysql’);

$conn->table(‘test’)->select(‘title’)->get();

Hope someone finds it helpful!

i’ll be moving forward with tape + enzyme for my work.

questions:

1. a year later, would you recommend any modifications to your testing stack? anything you have learned which would have changed your writeup?

2. i work at a really small startup (2 devs right now). my co-worker recommended selenium for testing the ui. would it be overkill to use both tape/enzyme AND selenium? do react-addons-test-utils and enzyme replace selenium?

Capsule no longer exists, as the functionality was rolled into the Laravel database component, as one of their first attempts at making components easier to use outside of Laravel itself.

You can read more in the README of their GitHub Repo, as I don’t think the components are documented by themselves.

https://github.com/illuminate/database

Thanks!

Is it possible to keep ‘node_modules’ folder globally(like c:\etc.)and use in different project. I want to avoid the instance of ‘node_modules’ folder in every project directory for same type of task(grunt-contrib-cssmin and grunt-zip).

Thanks,
Suyog Shaha