Laravel db:seed does not work without --class parameter

Question

Running php artisan db:seed does not work for some reason on my Laravel 5.6 project.

However, when I run php artisan db:seed --class=ClassNameTableSeeder it works. What could be the cause of such a weird behavior?

NB : Similar to questions like 39521913 but not a duplicate.

Just confirming - Have you tried `composer dump-autoload`? sometimes I forget to do that — Pankaj Jha, Jan 17 '19 at 18:26
Does it throw an error? Can you add your `DatabaseSeeder` class to your question? — Rwd, Jan 17 '19 at 18:32
@Davit `run` in default `DatabaseSeeder` is empty by default Marcin explains this in his answer. Thanks for you effort. — Fenn-CS, Jan 17 '19 at 19:12

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '19 at 18:45

This is because by default DatabaseSeeder does nothing. Original code in fresh Laravel project looks like this:

public function run()
{
    // $this->call(UsersTableSeeder::class);
}

So to run any database seeder, you should uncomment this line and put valid class name, so for example:

$this->call(ClassNameTableSeeder1::class);
$this->call(ClassNameTableSeeder2::class);

and so on to run seeders for each class you put here.

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