Laravel 5.3 db:seed command simply doesn't work : <p>I do everything by-the-book: </p>

<ol>
<li><p>Installed fresh Laravel 5.3.9 app (all my non-fresh apps produce the same error)</p></li>
<li><p>run <code>php artisan make:auth</code></p></li>
<li><p>create migrations for a new table 
`php artisan make:migration create_quotations_table --create=quotations</p>

<pre><code>Schema::create('quotations', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table-&gt;increments('id');

    $table-&gt;string('text');

    // my problem persists even with the below two columns commented out
    $table-&gt;integer('creator_id')-&gt;unsigned()-&gt;index('creator_id');
    $table-&gt;integer('updater_id')-&gt;unsigned()-&gt;index('updater_id');

    $table-&gt;softDeletes();
    $table-&gt;timestamps();
});
</code></pre></li>
<li><p>Then I run <code>php artisan migrate</code></p></li>
<li><p>Then I define a new seed <code>php artisan make:seeder QuotationsTableSeeder</code></p></li>
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<p>The complete content of the file, after I add a simple insert:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;

class QuotationsTableSeeder extends Seeder
{
/**
 * Run the database seeds.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function run()
{
    DB::table('quotations')-&gt;insert([
        'text' =&gt; str_random(10),

    ]);
}
}
</code></pre>

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<li>Then I run <code>php artisan db:seed</code></li>
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<h2>problem</h2>

<p>it simply doesn't work. No feedback presented, no errors in log file.
The probem persists in both my local environment (Win7, newest WAMP server)
and my Digital Ocean VPS powered by Ubuntu 16.04.
All the above steps I took in several separate apps - for no result. Also under Laragon 2.0.5 server.</p>

<h2>what I have tried</h2>

<p><code>php artisan optimize</code>  <a href="http://laravel.io/forum/04-22-2015-cant-seed-db-in-laravel-5" rel="noreferrer">as suggested here</a>.</p>

<p><code>composer dump-autoload</code> i <code>php artisan clear-compiled</code> also have brought no results</p>

<p>I also tried to seed just following the official docs example - failed.</p>

<p>I added <code>use DB;</code> to the seed file - still no result.</p>

<h2>to do</h2>

<p>help!!! How come they don't work?</p>
