diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index ed45ccf657..f1bab601ca 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -8,20 +8,20 @@
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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
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@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
                 "class",
                 "preload"
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-            "time": "2015-01-26 22:06:19"
+            "time": "2015-04-15 21:59:30"
         },
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@@ -206,16 +206,16 @@
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-                "reference": "eeda578cbe24a170331a1cfdf78be723412df7a4"
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-            "time": "2014-12-20 20:49:38"
+            "time": "2014-12-23 22:40:37"
         },
         {
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-            "version": "v1.4.0",
+            "version": "v1.4.1",
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                 "url": "https://github.com/doctrine/cache.git",
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@@ -294,13 +294,13 @@
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+                "predis/predis": "~1.0",
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             },
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             "extra": {
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             "autoload": {
@@ -340,25 +340,28 @@
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                 "caching"
             ],
-            "time": "2015-01-15 20:38:55"
+            "time": "2015-04-15 00:11:59"
         },
         {
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-            "version": "v1.2",
+            "version": "v1.3.0",
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+            },
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@@ -375,17 +378,6 @@
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-                    "name": "Jonathan Wage",
-                    "email": "jonwage@gmail.com",
-                    "homepage": "http://www.jwage.com/",
-                    "role": "Creator"
-                },
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-                    "name": "Guilherme Blanco",
-                    "email": "guilhermeblanco@gmail.com",
-                    "homepage": "http://www.instaclick.com"
-                },
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                     "email": "roman@code-factory.org"
@@ -394,11 +386,17 @@
                     "name": "Benjamin Eberlei",
                     "email": "kontakt@beberlei.de"
                 },
+                {
+                    "name": "Guilherme Blanco",
+                    "email": "guilhermeblanco@gmail.com"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Jonathan Wage",
+                    "email": "jonwage@gmail.com"
+                },
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                     "name": "Johannes Schmitt",
-                    "email": "schmittjoh@gmail.com",
-                    "homepage": "https://github.com/schmittjoh",
-                    "role": "Developer of wrapped JMSSerializerBundle"
+                    "email": "schmittjoh@gmail.com"
                 }
             ],
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@@ -408,7 +406,7 @@
                 "collections",
                 "iterator"
             ],
-            "time": "2014-02-03 23:07:43"
+            "time": "2015-04-14 22:21:58"
         },
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             "name": "doctrine/common",
@@ -3027,23 +3025,23 @@
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-            "version": "2.1.1",
+            "version": "2.2.0",
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                 "url": "https://github.com/phpspec/phpspec.git",
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             "require": {
-                "doctrine/instantiator": "~1.0,>=1.0.1",
+                "doctrine/instantiator": "^1.0.1",
                 "php": ">=5.3.3",
                 "phpspec/php-diff": "~1.0.0",
-                "phpspec/prophecy": "~1.1",
+                "phpspec/prophecy": "~1.4",
                 "sebastian/exporter": "~1.0",
                 "symfony/console": "~2.3",
                 "symfony/event-dispatcher": "~2.1",
@@ -3052,9 +3050,11 @@
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             },
             "require-dev": {
-                "behat/behat": "~3.0,>=3.0.11",
+                "behat/behat": "^3.0.11",
                 "bossa/phpspec2-expect": "~1.0",
-                "symfony/filesystem": "~2.1"
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "~4.4",
+                "symfony/filesystem": "~2.1",
+                "symfony/process": "~2.1"
             },
             "suggest": {
                 "phpspec/nyan-formatters": "~1.0 – Adds Nyan formatters"
@@ -3065,7 +3065,7 @@
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             "extra": {
                 "branch-alias": {
-                    "dev-master": "2.1.x-dev"
+                    "dev-master": "2.2.x-dev"
                 }
             },
             "autoload": {
@@ -3099,7 +3099,7 @@
                 "testing",
                 "tests"
             ],
-            "time": "2015-01-09 13:21:45"
+            "time": "2015-04-18 16:22:51"
         },
         {
             "name": "phpspec/prophecy",
@@ -3163,16 +3163,16 @@
         },
         {
             "name": "phpunit/php-code-coverage",
-            "version": "2.0.15",
+            "version": "2.0.16",
             "source": {
                 "type": "git",
                 "url": "https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-code-coverage.git",
-                "reference": "34cc484af1ca149188d0d9e91412191e398e0b67"
+                "reference": "934fd03eb6840508231a7f73eb8940cf32c3b66c"
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-                "reference": "34cc484af1ca149188d0d9e91412191e398e0b67",
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@@ -3221,7 +3221,7 @@
                 "testing",
                 "xunit"
             ],
-            "time": "2015-01-24 10:06:35"
+            "time": "2015-04-11 04:35:00"
         },
         {
             "name": "phpunit/php-file-iterator",
@@ -3360,16 +3360,16 @@
         },
         {
             "name": "phpunit/php-token-stream",
-            "version": "1.4.0",
+            "version": "1.4.1",
             "source": {
                 "type": "git",
                 "url": "https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-token-stream.git",
-                "reference": "db32c18eba00b121c145575fcbcd4d4d24e6db74"
+                "reference": "eab81d02569310739373308137284e0158424330"
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-                "reference": "db32c18eba00b121c145575fcbcd4d4d24e6db74",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/sebastianbergmann/php-token-stream/zipball/eab81d02569310739373308137284e0158424330",
+                "reference": "eab81d02569310739373308137284e0158424330",
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@@ -3405,20 +3405,20 @@
             "keywords": [
                 "tokenizer"
             ],
-            "time": "2015-01-17 09:51:32"
+            "time": "2015-04-08 04:46:07"
         },
         {
             "name": "phpunit/phpunit",
-            "version": "4.6.1",
+            "version": "4.6.4",
             "source": {
                 "type": "git",
                 "url": "https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit.git",
-                "reference": "08b2aacdd8433abbba468f995d6d64b76a7a62ec"
+                "reference": "163232991e652e6efed2f8470326fffa61e848e2"
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-                "reference": "08b2aacdd8433abbba468f995d6d64b76a7a62ec",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/zipball/163232991e652e6efed2f8470326fffa61e848e2",
+                "reference": "163232991e652e6efed2f8470326fffa61e848e2",
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             "require": {
@@ -3457,9 +3457,6 @@
             "autoload": {
                 "classmap": [
                     "src/"
-                ],
-                "files": [
-                    "src/Framework/Assert/Functions.php"
                 ]
             },
             "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
@@ -3480,7 +3477,7 @@
                 "testing",
                 "xunit"
             ],
-            "time": "2015-04-03 13:46:59"
+            "time": "2015-04-11 05:23:21"
         },
         {
             "name": "phpunit/phpunit-mock-objects",
diff --git a/config/database.php b/config/database.php
index c57b4735b2..5f203d8743 100644
--- a/config/database.php
+++ b/config/database.php
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ return [
 
         'sqlite' => [
             'driver'   => 'sqlite',
-            'database' => ':memory:',
+            'database' =>  __DIR__.'/../storage/database/testing.db',
             'prefix'   => '',
         ],
 
diff --git a/storage/database/.gitignore b/storage/database/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3997beadf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/storage/database/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.db
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/TestCase.php b/tests/TestCase.php
index 1da9375410..cc436f7446 100644
--- a/tests/TestCase.php
+++ b/tests/TestCase.php
@@ -31,9 +31,20 @@ class TestCase extends Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\TestCase
         parent::setUp();
 
         // if the database copy does not exist, call migrate.
+        $copy     = __DIR__.'/../storage/database/testing-copy.db';
+        $original = __DIR__.'/../storage/database/testing.db';
+        if (!file_exists($copy)) {
+            Log::debug('Created new database.');
+            touch($original);
+            Artisan::call('migrate');
+            copy($original, $copy);
+        } else {
+            if (file_exists($copy)) {
+                copy($copy, $original);
+            }
+        }
+        // if the database copy does exists, copy back as original.
 
-        // if the database copy does not exist, create it and copy back as original.
-        Artisan::call('migrate');
         FactoryMuffin::loadFactories(__DIR__ . '/factories');
 
     }
@@ -56,7 +67,10 @@ class TestCase extends Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\TestCase
     {
         parent::tearDown();
 
-        // delete copy and original.
+        // delete copy original.
+        //$original = __DIR__.'/../storage/database/testing.db';
+        //unlink($original);
+
     }
 
     /**