Laravel 5 route not defined, while it is?

Question

I'm a little confused on how this is supposed to work. But I'm getting an Route [/preferences/1] not defined error.

In my routes.php I have:

Route::patch('/preferences/{id}', 'UserController@update');

And in the view file (account/preferences.blade.php) I have:

{!! Form::model(Auth::user(), ['method' => 'PATCH', 'route' => '/preferences/' . Auth::user()->id]) !!}

I'm getting an error telling me the route doesn't exist. I think I'm misunderstanding the docs on this topic but in my opinion I've defined a route for PATCH requests with a given parameter, and set this in the view correctly.

What am I overlooking here?

Answer 1

i had the same issue and find the solution lately.

you should check if your route is rather inside a route::group

like here:

Route::group(['prefix' => 'Auth', 'as' => 'Auth.', 'namespace' => 'Auth', 'middleware' => 'Auth']

if so you should use it in the view file. like here:

!! Form::model(Auth::user(), ['method' => 'PATCH', 'route' => 'Auth.preferences/' . Auth::user()->id]) !!}