This is a cool tool, and automates some of which I had been doing manually - creating seeds for data. With one command, it will create a seed for a given table (or tables) using the data already within that table - beautiful. https://github.com/orangehill/iseed

To install, add the package to your composer.json:

"require": { "orangehill/iseed": "dev-master" }

Run composer update:

composer update

And the simplest command to generate a seed for a given table:

php artisan iseed [table_name]

More commands / documentation are on the packages github page.