Error Class 'Faker\Factory' not found

Hi,

I installed the Employees App. I am trying to populate employees using Factories. This is my call inside tinker:
>>> Modules\Employees\Models\Employee::factory()->create();

And this is the error I get:
PHP Error: Class 'Faker\Factory' not found in /var/www/html/akaunting/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/DatabaseServiceProvider.php on line 91

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Hi again, I found the solution.
The problem was that I was using 'production' environment, and in that case the Faker\Factory class is not available.
The solution consists on:
1. Change .env file in order to change the environment to 'testing':
APP_ENV=production ----> APP_ENV=testing
2. Run 'composer install' from Akaunting project root folder. It will reinstall all packages, this time including Faker\Factory class.

Now, we can populate the database using Factory in Tinker:
$ php artisan tinker
Psy Shell v0.10.8 (PHP 7.4.3 — cli) by Justin Hileman
>>> $post = Modules\MyBlog\Models\Post::factory()->make();
PHP Deprecated: Since fakerphp/faker 1.14: Accessing property "boolean" is deprecated, use "boolean()" instead. in /var/www/html/akaunting/vendor/symfony/deprecation-contracts/function.php on line 25
=> Modules\MyBlog\Models\Post {#6498
company_id: 1,
name: "Saepe ex saepe.",
description: "Eligendi quia soluta nobis labore. Non dolor qui animi nobis.",
enabled: 0,
}
>>>

Note: You can ignore the warning, however it would be good to fix it in the MyBlog module.

Update:
You should use
APP_ENV=local
instead of 'production', but not 'testing', which is not supported by Laravel.

I was able to deploy the same project locally with out any problem and composer update on forge also runs https://uk.bestessays.com/buy_essays.html successfully and i can see the Error Class 'Faker\Factory' not found. ou need to run Run 'composer install' from Akaunting project root folder. It will reinstall all packages, this time including Faker\Factory class.