Change connection on saving-event - laravel

Question

I'm trying to change the connection on the saving event. Here is what I have done so far:
I make and event on the saving method:
protected static function boot()
{
parent::boot();
static::saving(function($model)
{
$model->connection = 'test';
var_dump($model);
return $model;
});
}
And then I make a save on User.
$user = new User();
$user->save();
When that is done, it still uses the default connection instead of the test-connection I have set.
I have both a default and a test connection configured in app/config/database.php which you can see below: (OBS: The change is the prefix)
// ...
'connections' => array(
'default' => array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'localhost',
'database' => 'database',
'username' => 'username',
'password' => 'password',
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
),
'test' => array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'localhost',
'database' => 'database',
'username' => 'username',
'password' => 'password',
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => 'test_',
),
),
// ...
The var_dump turns out with the following, where you can see that the $model->connection have been changed.
object(User)[159]
...
protected 'connection' => string 'default' (length=7)
...
But for some reasons it stills goes into the table users instead of test_users.
Does anyone have any idea how to make this work?

Answer 1

I figured out a way to do this by overriding Eloquent's save-method.
public function save(array $options = array())
{
// set draft connection
Config::set('database.default', 'test');
// do the actual save
parent::save($options);
// change back to original connection
Config::set('database.default', 'default');
}