Laravel's Artisan says nothing to migrate

Try this:

First:

php artisan migrate:reset

Rolled back: 2014_03_28_142140_user_table

Nothing to rollback.

second:

php artisan migrate

Migrated: 2014_03_28_142140_user_table

check the database.

That foo thing is just an example. Laravel will look for migrations to run in app/database/migrations on default. Try removing that --path parameter and see if it works.

The path argument is for creating a migration for example:

 php artisan migrate:make create_user_table --path=app/database/migrations/user_migrations/

But it is not documented to use while running the migrations, as it was in prior versions of laravel.

Dropping the --path argument should work in your case