Laravel 4 Entrust boilerplate migration file for adding predefined permissions - https://github.com/Zizaco/entrust

2014_02_24_135909_add_permissions.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;

class AddPermissions extends Migration
{

    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        $manageUsers = new Permission;
        $manageUsers->name = 'manage_users';
        $manageUsers->display_name = 'Manage Users';
        $manageUsers->save();
        
        $addUsers = new Permission;
        $addUsers->name = 'add_users';
        $addUsers->display_name = 'Add Users';
        $addUsers->save();
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Permission::where('name', '=', 'manage_users')->delete();
        Permission::where('name', '=', 'add_users')->delete();
    }

}