Laravel Unit testing example

Usually I see tutorials to tests Laravel which are just functional tests, I think unit testing should be given priority too. Done for this blog post.

Clone and Run

To clone and run this locally do the following:

• git clone git@github.com:geshan/laravel-unit-test-example.git
• cd laravel-unit-test-example
• cp .env.example .env
• run composer install --prefer-dist
• php artisan serve
• try http://localhost:8000/place/Cash on your browser you should see Checkout for Cash with total 100
• try http://localhost:8000/place/CreditCard on your browser you should see Checkout for CreditCard with total 95

Run tests

PHPUnit is used to write the unit tests, to run the tests run the following command after composer install is done.

>./vendor/bin/phpunit

Docker with virtual host

To run with docker and nginx proxy at virtual host laravel.dev do the following steps

1. Add laravel.dev to your /etc/hosts with sudo echo '120.0.0.1 laravel.dev' >> /etc/hosts
2. Run jwilder/nginx-proxy with docker run -d -p 80:80 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro -v ~/projects/nginx-proxy/logs:/var/log/nginx jwilder/nginx-proxy it will have logs in the ~/projects/nginx-proxy/logs folder
3. Then start the container with docker-compose up (check the docker-compose.yml file for details)
4. Then point your browser to http://laravel.dev/place/Cash to see the desired output. (you might need to 777 your storage folder in case of errors)

To include mysql

1. Run dydx/maria db docker run -d -p 3306:3306 -v ~/Projects/data:/var/lib/data --name=mysql dydx/alpine-mariadb
2. Uncomment the following in docker-compose.yml

 external_links:
   - mysql:mysql

1. username and password is homestead:secret, now your mysql host for laravel should be mysql