I am trying to call Eloquent's save() method on an existing record but getting an error from Illuminate's Query Builder.

Following the documentation on [Laravel's web site] (http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#insert-update-delete) for updating a retrieved model, and also looking at the example here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19684925/laravel-eloquent-orm-save-update-vs-create, my code appears to follow the expected convention, but instead I get the error mentioned in the title of this post. Also, I have a thread on Stackoverflow for this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24023516/call-to-undefined-method-illuminate-database-query-buildersave/24024679#24024679

My code:

$this->employee        = Employee::where('login', $login)->get();
$this->employee->first_name        = 'John';
$this->employee->last_name        = 'Doe';
$this->employee->save();

If I use Employee::find(1); it works fine, but I don't know what the id of the user is so I can't use the find method. Seems like a bug to me. I've tried using only Employee::where('login', $login); without the ->get() method, but that doesn't work either.

What does work besides the find(1) method?

The error is truncated in the subject title, so here is the full error msg:

Symfony \ Component \ Debug \ Exception \ FatalErrorException Call to undefined method Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection::save()