get controller and action name in Laravel 4-Collection of common programming errors

I’m trying to access the name of the current controller and the current method to pass it to my view as a variable. I’ve tried several ways from pointers I found online but they don’t work so I assume they were for Laravel 3.

Here is what I’ve tried

Request::$route->controller

gives

Access to undeclared static property: Illuminate\Support\Facades\Request::$route

and

Request::route()->controller

gives

Call to undefined method Illuminate\Http\Request::route()