Laravel relationships in eloquent model

Question

I'm trying to add a "simple" relationship into my Route model, but I must have overlooked something because it's not working.

I want my Route to have many steps and the steps should only have one Route, but my code does not find any steps. What did I miss?

routes table:

     Schema::create('routes', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('uuid')->unique();
        $table->decimal('start_lat', 11, 8);
        $table->decimal('start_lng', 11, 8);
        $table->decimal('end_lat', 11, 8);
        $table->decimal('end_lng', 11, 8);
        $table->string('start_address');
        $table->string('end_address');
        $table->integer('distance');
        $table->integer('duration');
        $table->timestamps();
    });

steps table:

    Schema::create('steps', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('uuid')->unique();
        $table->integer('route_id')->unsigned();
        $table->foreign('route_id')->references('id')->on('routes');
        $table->integer('distance');
        $table->integer('duration');
        $table->decimal('start_lat', 11, 8);
        $table->decimal('start_lng', 11, 8);
        $table->decimal('end_lat', 11, 8);
        $table->decimal('end_lng', 11, 8);
        $table->string('instructions');
        $table->text('polyline');
    });

Route model:

public function steps() {
    return $this->hasMany(Step::class, 'route_id', 'id');
}

Step model:

public function route() {
    return $this->belongsTo(Route::class);
}

The way I call it in the controller:

    $route = Route::all()->where('id', 1)->first();
    $steps[] = $route->steps();

Answer 1

You probably want a collection with steps?

But instead you get eloquent steps()

Try and change it for:

$steps[] = $route->steps;