Laravel Resource route NotFoundHttpException

Question

I am using the resource route to access several crud functions on my site but I am getting a NotFoundHttpException error when accessing one of several pages. This was working this earlier and I don't think I have changed anything.

Route::resource('/contractors', 'ContractorController');

The specific ContractorController method:

public function skills($id)
{
    $contractor = Contractor::find($id);
    return View::make('contractors.skills')
        ->with('contractor', $contractor);
}

I have all of the basic crud methods located in the ContractorController too. I am using the skills method to create a new view that edits tags in a pivot table

my url is public/contractors/1/skills and this blade view:

contractors/skills.blade.php 

Do you see anything that I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

There's only a few routes that Resource controllers by default will handle, you can see a full list of them (7 in all) in the documentation entry for Resource Controllers .

The skills URI segment is not one of them. You will need to add a separate route for that:

Route::get('/contractors/{contractorId}/skills', 'ContractorController@skills');

However, this isn't really RESTful design. You may be better off with a separate skills resource.