laravel/laravel — pull request #2988 by alnutile (2014-09-04 16:46:55+00:00)
Title: [bug] Initial install seed had an error

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PHP Fatal error: Class 'Eloquent' not found in /home/vagrant/Code/behat_v2_laravel/database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php on line 14
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Only command ran before this was php artisan app:name FooBar

The above sold the issue.