Change default RESTFul actions laravel - php

Question

I created a controller named CatController with php artisan make:controller CatController. So it generated the next route list:*-> What generated the route list is on routes.php Route::resource('cat','CatsController');
| Domain | Method | URI | Name | Action | Middleware |
+--------+----------+-------------------+-------------+-------------------------------------------------+------------+
| | GET|HEAD | / | | Furbook\Http\Controllers\CatController#index | |
| | GET|HEAD | cat | cat.index | Furbook\Http\Controllers\CatController#index | |
| | POST | cat | cat.store | Furbook\Http\Controllers\CatController#store | |
| | GET|HEAD | cat/create | cat.create | Furbook\Http\Controllers\CatController#create | |
| | DELETE | cat/{cat} | cat.destroy | Furbook\Http\Controllers\CatController#destroy | |
| | PATCH | cat/{cat} | | Furbook\Http\Controllers\CatController#update | |
| | PUT | cat/{cat} | cat.update | Furbook\Http\Controllers\CatController#update | |
| | GET|HEAD | cat/{cat} | cat.show | Furbook\Http\Controllers\CatController#show | |
| | GET|HEAD | cat/{cat}/edit | cat.edit | Furbook\Http\Controllers\CatController#edit | |
Later on I thought it would be better to call it CatsController and handle the urls as cats/... so I renamed the controller but I still have the same default REST actions URIs.
Is there anyway to change it? How should I proceed?

Answer 1

To my knowledge the make:controller command only generates the controller file, not any route definitions. The routes defined there look like they've beed generated by a Route::resource definition that would look like this:
Route::resource('cat', 'CatController');
To make that work with cats and CatsControllers you should change it to this:
Route::resource('cats', 'CatsController');
You can read more on RESTful Resource Controllers in the Laravel Documentation.