So I'm going through the Laravel 5 Fundamentals cast and I thought I would just make a link that would help with the edit article section.

I first tried:

{!! link_to_route(route('articles.edit', $article->id), 'Edit this post') !!}

And that wasn't flying. The error was stating that the route didn't exist, although it was printing the correct route and could be pasted into the browser and visited successfully.

I ended up using the below code to accomplish what I wanted:

<a href="{{ action("ArticlesController@edit", $article->id) }}">Edit this post</a>

Is there a cleaner way to accomplish this kind of link or button?

Thanks in advance