laravel-scout-tntsearch-driver | Driver for Laravel Scout search package based on https

I just installed this package (laravel-scout-tntsearch-driver) and when using the search() method, I am getting the following error: PDOException with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused'

Running the command docker exec -it desk_php php artisan scout:import App\\Models\\TicketMessage result in:

I recently discovered a vulnerability in a package that I like to use in my Laravel projects. The package is a log viewer for Laravel: https://github.com/ARCANEDEV/LogViewer.

I put in an issue about the vulnerability and the owner said I can put in a Pull Request to try and rectify the issue, and I feel I could at least try.

My question is: is there a way to use the version of the package with my Pull Request in a testing environment, as if I were installing it via Composer?

Essentially, away from actual unit tests, is there a way to test run a package in a project?

Updates given research and available answers

After much Googling and reading of answers I tried the following:

• Fork the repo I'm looking to make a pull request for. The fork is here: https://github.com/blorange2/LogViewer
• Clone this forked repo onto my local machine and switch to the branch that's compatible with my current version of Laravel (which is v4.5 for Laravel 5.6)
• Update the composer.json in my local project to have a repositories array

I'm using Google App Engine flex PHP environment to run a Laravel php application. I'm trying to implement Scout search, which has two steps for setup:

1. Index all documents to create a local index file. This is a one time process.
2. Perform search activities using the index file.

The driver used for the search is TNTSearch.

Due to the distributed nature of the environment, new deployments wipe out the file system to deploy the code, thereby deleting the index file.

I'm looking for an approach to persist the index file across deployments.

I am writing some seeders for my Laravel instance's database. I'm using the Laravel Scout TNTSearch driver.

I have working search functionality on one of my models (Recipe) using Laravel Scout and TNTSearch: teamtnt/laravel-scout-tntsearch-driver.

I want to add the same search functionality to a different model (Ingredient). I'm attempting to get search results back as an array by using toSearchableArray(). For the sake of testing, I did the following in my model.

I am using the package teamtnt/laravel-scout-tntsearch-driver and I wish to make a very small change to one of the files within teamtnt/tntsearch which is one of the packages dependencies.

Usually I would:

1. Create a fork of the package.
2. Add the repository into my composer.json as follows:

In my application, I am using Laravel Scout with the TNTSearch Driver to create a search bar in my site navigation, which is connected to a search method.

The search method searches a bunch of different models and returns what it finds to a view.

Here is the method: