diff --git a/application/controllers/home.php b/application/controllers/home.php
index c9c3c189..b8afb1ea 100644
--- a/application/controllers/home.php
+++ b/application/controllers/home.php
@@ -10,31 +10,35 @@ class Home_Controller extends Controller {
 	| Instead of using RESTful routes and anonymous functions, you may wish to
 	| use controllers to organize your application API. You'll love them.
 	|
-	| To start using this controller, simple remove the default route from the
+	| To start using this controller, simply remove the default route from the
 	| application "routes.php" file. Laravel is smart enough to find this
-	| controller and call the default method, which is "index".
+	| controller and call the default method, which is "get_index".
+	|
+	| Just like routes, controllers are also RESTful by default. Each function
+	| is prefixed with the HTTP verb it responds to, allowing you to quickly
+	| build beautiful RESTful applications.
 	|
 	| This controller responds to URIs beginning with "home", and it also
 	| serves as the default controller for the application, meaning it
 	| handles requests to the root of the application.
 	|
-	| You can respond to requests to "/home/profile" like so:
+	| You can respond to GET requests to "/home/profile" like so:
 	|
-	|		public function profile()
+	|		public function get_profile()
 	|		{
 	|			return "This is your profile!";
 	|		}
 	|
 	| Any extra segments are passed to the method as parameters:
 	|
-	|		public function profile($id)
+	|		public function get_profile($id)
 	|		{
 	|			return "This is the profile for user {$id}.";
 	|		}
 	|
 	*/
 
-	public function index()
+	public function get_index()
 	{
 		return View::make('home.index');
 	}
diff --git a/laravel/routing/controller.php b/laravel/routing/controller.php
index dc99c713..5b8222eb 100644
--- a/laravel/routing/controller.php
+++ b/laravel/routing/controller.php
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?php namespace Laravel\Routing;
 
 use Laravel\IoC;
+use Laravel\Request;
 use Laravel\Response;
 
 abstract class Controller {
@@ -118,7 +119,9 @@ public function execute($method, $parameters = array())
 
 		if (is_null($response))
 		{
-			$response = call_user_func_array(array($this, $method), $parameters);
+			$verb = strtolower(Request::method());
+
+			$response = call_user_func_array(array($this, "{$verb}_{$method}"), $parameters);
 		}
 
 		// The after filter and the framework expects all responses to