Codeception and Laravel Exceptions

Has nobody else run into this problem with Codeception when running functional tests? Not even Google has an answer, it's making me feel pretty special if you know what I mean!

I don't have my work code in front of me at the moment which I've done this before, but try this out, put this line in your test right before you expect to see the exception, just make sure to reference the proper exception class:

\PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase::setExpectedException('Laracasts\Validation\FormValidationException');

edit: for reference, this works with codeception since it leverages phpunit

@mhanson01

Thank you, this works great so long as I'm using the Cept format but fails when using the Cest format. Any idea how to get it working in a Cest?

You can try solution from this answer http://stackoverflow.com/a/25225086 except, I cannot use

$I->assertTrue(
   // other codes
);

Here's what I'm using right now

$i->seeExceptionThrown('Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\ModelNotFoundException', function() use ($i){
    //All actions that you expect to generate the Exception
    $i->amOnRoute('users.edit', ['id' => 10000]);
    $i->canSee('Invalid item ID!');
});