laravel 4 - Subclassing Migrator not working for namespaced migration -

i have namespaced migrations, , can't past class not found errors due namespacing. in earlier question, antonio carlos ribeiro stated:

laravel migrator doesn't play nice namespaced migrations. best bet in case subclass , substitute migrator class, christopher pitt explains in blog post: https://medium.com/laravel-4/6e75f99cdb0.

i have tried doing (followed composer dump-autoload, of course), continuing receive class not found errors. i've got project files set as

inetpub |--apptruancy    |--database       |--2015_04_24_153942_truancy_create_districts.php       |--migrationsserviceprovider.php       |--migrator.php 

the migration file follows:

<?php  namespace truancy;  use illuminate\database\schema\blueprint; use illuminate\database\migrations\migration;  class truancycreatedistricts extends migration {      /**      * run migrations.      *      * @return void      */     public function up()     {         schema::create('districts', function($table) {             $table->string('id')->unique()->primary()->nullable(false);             $table->string('district');         });     }      /**      * reverse migrations.      *      * @return void      */     public function down()     {         schema::drop('districts');     }  } 

migrator.php follows:

namespace truancy;  use illuminate\database\migrations\migrator base;  class migrator extends base{   /**    * resolve migration instance file.    *    * @param string $file    * @return object    */   public function resolve($file)   {     $file = implode("_", array_slice(explode("_", $file), 4));      $class = "truancy\\" . studly_case($file);      return new $class;   } } 

migrationserviceprovider.php follows:

<?php  namespace truancy;  use illuminate\support\serviceprovider;  class truancyserviceprovider extends serviceprovider{   public function register()   {     $this->app->bindshared(       "migrator",       function () {         return new migrator(           $this->app->make("migration.repository"),           $this->app->make("db"),           $this->app->make("files")         );       }     );   } } 

the lines generated in autoload_classmap.php expected:

'truancy\\migrator' => $basedir . '/apptruancy/database/migrations/migrator.php', 'truancy\\truancycreatedistricts' => $basedir . '/apptruancy/database/migrations/2015_04_24_153942_truancy_create_districts.php', 'truancy\\truancyserviceprovider' => $basedir . '/apptruancy/database/migrations/migrationsserviceprovider.php' 

i'm calling php artisan migrate --path="apptruancy/database/migrations" , receive error:

php fatal error:  class 'truancycreatedistricts' not found in c:\inetpub\laravel\vendor\laravel\framework\src\illuminate\database \migrations\migrator.php on line 297 

i know must doing dumb (my instinct $class = "truancy\\" . studly_case($file); in migrator.php wrong), can't unscrew lightbulb. migrate command finding migrations file, , correct classname in classmap, has somewhere in process of resolving classname file, subclass , substitution supposed address. suggestions i've gone wrong?

ok, i've gotten working. turns out medium.com article assumes you'd know put files talks about, didn't. i've made several changes, , working correctly:

1. i created new apptruancy\providers subfolder, , add composer.json
2. i moved both migrator.php , migrationserviceprovider.php new folder
3. i changed namespace in both of files truancy\providers match directory structure
4. i added 'truancy\providers\migrationsserviceprovider' providers array in apptruancy\config\app.php
5. i added \ in front of schema in migration file reference base namespace.
6. i ran dump-autoload update classmap

this 1 of cases i'm not 100% of changes required, layout make sense i'm happy it. so, in nutshell, if you're trying namespace migrations, need subclass migrator class described in medium.com article listed above, need register service provider in config\app, making sure class names in both files consistent.