Laravel 5 dynamically run migrations

so I have created my own blog package in a structure of Packages/Sitemanager/Blog I have a service provider that looks like the following:

namespace Sitemanager\Blog;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider as LaravelServiceProvider;

class BlogServiceProvider extends LaravelServiceProvider {

    /**
     * Indicates if loading of the provider is deferred.
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    protected $defer = false;

    /**
     * Bootstrap the application events.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot() {

        $this->handleConfigs();
        $this->handleMigrations();
        $this->handleViews();
        $this->handleRoutes();
    }

    /**
     * Register the service provider.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register() {

        // Bind any implementations.
        $this->app->make('Sitemanager\Blog\Controllers\BlogController');
    }

    /**
     * Get the services provided by the provider.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function provides() {

        return [];
    }

    private function handleConfigs() {

        $configPath = __DIR__ . '/config/blog.php';

        $this->publishes([$configPath => config_path('blog.php')]);

        $this->mergeConfigFrom($configPath, 'blog');
    }

    private function handleTranslations() {

        $this->loadTranslationsFrom(__DIR__.'/lang', 'blog');
    }

    private function handleViews() {

        $this->loadViewsFrom(__DIR__.'/views', 'blog');

        $this->publishes([__DIR__.'/views' => base_path('resources/views/vendor/blog')]);
    }

    private function handleMigrations() {

        $this->publishes([__DIR__ . '/migrations' => base_path('database/migrations')]);
    }

    private function handleRoutes() {

        include __DIR__.'/routes.php';
    }
}

Now, what i would like to do is run the migrations dynamically if they have never been run before or within an installation process i suppose. I've seen in older documentation you could so something like this:

Artisan::call('migrate', array('--path' => 'app/migrations'));

However, this is invalid in laravel 5, how can I approach this?

via Chebli Mohamed