Factories can also conveniently populate your database in order to test your application on the browser.
The following command will persist 5 articles, each with 3 irish authors, considering that the ArticleFactory class features
a withThreeIrishAuthors() method:
bin/cake fixture_factories_persist Authors -n 5 -m withThreeIrishAuthorsThe option --dry-run or -d will display the output without persisting.
The option -c will persist in the connection provided (default is test).
The option -w will create associated fixtures.
The fixture_factories_persist command is featured on CakePHP 4 only (open to contribution for CakePHP 3).