action helper and routing priority laravel 5 - laravel-5.1

Question

I have two rules
Route::get('this-is-an-awesome-route', 'Ads#getIndex');
Route::controller('ads', 'Ads');
action('Ads#getIndex') renders
http://my-awesome-domain/ads
I want
http://my-awesome-domain/this-is-an-awesome-route
What's the problem ?

Answer 1

For some reason from Laravel 4.2 to Laravel 5 the logic changed a little bit. The line you wrote was working before, you just have to reverse everything as the router isn't processing your code the same way.
Tested and working solution
Route::controller('ads', 'Ads');
Route::get('this-is-an-awesome-route', 'Ads#getIndex');
The first route will be overwritten by the second one.

Answer 2

The second route is rewriting the first route declaration. Let's see:
// Ads#getIndex will be called
Route::get('this-is-an-awesome-route', 'Ads#getIndex');
// Ads#getIndex will be called too by native definition
Route::controller('ads', 'Ads');
Because of Route::controller('ads', 'Ads') is called as latest declaration it will overwrite the previous one. So, you have at least two ways to achieve this task
You could create a new function into Ads controller just to response to the first route:
Route::get('this-is-an-awesome-route', 'Ads#awesome');
Then:
public function awesome(){
// do stuff here
}
Rename the route name for your controller
Route::controller('ads', 'Ads', [
'getIndex' => 'ads.getHome',
]);
Now your Route::controller('ads', 'Ads'); will respond to getHome() instead getIndex() as per renamed route:
public function getHome(){
// do stuff for getIndex() definitions here
}