Introduction

In our Laravel-based project, we encountered a situation where it was important to ensure our application's dependencies were synchronized with the latest updates from external packages. This post details a specific commit we made to address a synchronization issue with the prism-php/prism package, providing insights into how we managed our Composer dependencies effectively.

Introduction

Our test suite was experiencing frequent failures due to database transaction issues. The reconnect() method was causing the PDO connection to close, triggering Laravel's RefreshDatabase trait to reset and resulting in deadlocks and "relation does not exist" errors.

The Challenge

The main challenge was to identify the root cause of the issue and find a solution that would