title: Starting with existing database on Laravel 5
body: <p>I have been enjoying working on <a href="http://laravel.com/docs/" rel="noreferrer">Laravel</a> for a while now, and am planning to move a fairly large project to Laravel 5.</p>
  
  <p>The new project has fairly large database with numerous tables, and it would take considerable amount of time build migrations, models and controllers individually. </p>
  
  <p>Has anybody worked on this before? What is the best way to go about it? </p>
  
  <p>I have used this great <a href="https://github.com/Xethron/migrations-generator" rel="noreferrer">extension</a> to generate migrations as of now - but still for a 200+ tables, it would take quite a long time to do the rest. </p>