Testing an Eloquent model's events

I recently ran into an issue when attempting to test a trait that registered events on an Eloquent model. After I had done a little digging it turns out that events on the model are only fired when the event dispatcher is set. Of course the events dispatcher is part of a different package (illuminate/events) and isn't setup when working with individual illuminate components.

To get around this you simply need to install illuminate/events and give the dispatcher instance to Eloquent.

Eloquent::setEventDispatcher(new \Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher());

A full working example can be found on the laratools/laratools repo