Laravel voyager with phpunit - laravel-5

Question

I'm trying to write some tests for my admin panel using laravel voyager however there seems to be some issues doing some research i found that the problem may be have something to do with permissions
public function A_admin_user_can_visit_the_admin_page()
{
\DB::table('permissions')->insert(
['key' => 'browse_admin', 'id' => 1]
);
\DB::table('roles')->insert(
['name' => 'admin', 'display_name' => 'Administrator']
);
\DB::table('permission_role')->insert(
['permission_id' => 1, 'role_id' => 1]
);
$user = factory('App\User')->create(['role_id' => 1]);
$this->actingAs($user);
$this->get('/admin')->assertStatus(200);
}
This tests works fine given i have the correct permissions
public function A_admin_can_browse_users_data()
{
$this->admin();
$this->adminPermissions();
$this->adminRoles();
$user = factory('App\User')->create(['role_id' => 1]);
$this->actingAs($user);
$this->get('/admin')->assertStatus(200);
// dd(\Voyager::canOrFail('browse_bread'));
$this->get('/admin/users')->assertStatus(200);
}
Here this tests fails but I assure the functions admin adminRoles and adminPermissions have created the necessary db entries that give my user full access even when i die and dump the permissions i get true so it can't be the permissions is the problem something else is going wrong and I don't what it is any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Voyager directly require route file in web.php calling method Voyager::routes() because of it the laravel RouteServiceProvider doesn't know about the new route file in case of test environment. So, in order to fix this the issue I did this workaround.
Just add the below code in setUp() method of your test file.
Route::prefix('admin')
->namespace('App\Http\Controllers')
->group(base_path('vendor/tcg/voyager/routes/voyager.php'));