Cannot use object of type Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config as array in .../framework/src/Illuminate/Database/DatabaseManager.php

I've created a simple User Repository class in Laravel that will handle all CRUD functionalities.

Everything works fine, but when I try to unit test it with phpunit, it all breaks apart.

I'm running the latest development version of Laravel, I understand this isn't a stable release but I'm confused whether this is a laravel bug or am I doing something wrong.

When running phpunit, I get this huge error output.

The classes I have are

Model Role

namespace Shazzam\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Role extends Model {

    protected $fillable = ['name'];
}

Role Repository

namespace Shazzam\Repositories;

use \Shazzam\Models\Role;

class RoleRepository
{

    /**
     * @param array $args
     * @return bool
     */
    public function create($args)
    {
        $role = new Role($args);

        return $role->save();
    }
}

RoleRepository Test

use Shazzam\Repositories\RoleRepository;

class RoleRepositoryTest extends TestCase
{
    public $repo;

    public function setUp()
    {
        $this->repo = new RoleRepository;
    }

    public function test_it_creates_a_new_role()
    {
        $role['name'] = "NewRole";

        $this->assertTrue($this->repo->create($role));
    }
}

Please let me know if you see that I'm doing anything wrong. I'd really like to keep working on the dev version of Laravel. Thanks.

Edit 1- Removed array typehint in the RoleRepository create method. Updated Title

You should call the base class setUp method:

public function setUp() {
    parent::setUp();