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title: Unit testing
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In your application's tests, if you are not seeding roles and permissions as part of your test `setUp()` then you may run into a chicken/egg situation where roles and permissions aren't registered with the gate (because your tests create them after that gate registration is done). Working around this is simple: In your tests simply add a `setUp()` instruction to re-register the permissions, like this:
```php
public function setUp()
{
// first include all the normal setUp operations
parent::setUp();
// now re-register all the roles and permissions
$this->app->make(\Spatie\Permission\PermissionRegistrar::class)->registerPermissions();
}
```
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