zenry said:

aside from the fact that you should not inject your Models you should use

Illuminate\Validation\Factory

instead of the facade

Validator

see http://laravel.com/docs/facades#facade-class-reference

Thanks!

Can you clarify why I shouldn't inject models? Is there a better way to achieve the same result (automatic validation) without injection?

Edit - just to clarify; the binding is as follows:

App::bind('User', function($app) {
	return new \Models\User(
		App::make('validator')
	);
});

See this post http://forumsarchive.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?pid=47124#p47124

Ah ok - that makes sense. I've removed the overloading and now create an instance of the Validator via the IoC in the Model save method; i.e. just before it's needed - hopefully that won't create issues further down the line.

Thanks!

you can also put the validator in Model event Saving

http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#model-observers