title: Laravel 4 how to use the route name alias (uses) with Route::controller
body: <p>Rather than using <code>Route::get</code>, <code>Route::post</code> etc for my controller requests I decided to use the <code>Route::controller</code> method, really helps cut down on code lines in <code>route.php</code>.</p>
  
  <p>However I had previously set up some "route" names, for example my previous code included:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Route::get('admin/baserate/view', array('as' =&gt; 'baserateview','uses'=&gt;'BaserateController@getView'));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but now I'm using <code>Route::controller</code> I don't know how to implement the route alias name "baserateview". My new code looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Route::controller('admin/baserate', 'BaserateController');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there any way I can do this?</p>