laravel/framework — pull request #2264 by jbruni (2013-09-11 18:15:11+00:00)
Title: Provided a way to set default attribute values for an Eloquent model

As suggested here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18747500/how-to-set-a-default-attribute-value-for-a-laravel-eloquent-model/

After discussed here: http://irclogs.laravel.io/2013-09-11

I just want to make new instance of my Eloquent model to behave coherently with my database schema (which has default values set up).