Laravel 8 resource controller not fetching model

In Laravel 7 fetching a model was pretty straightforward, i just needed to setup mi resource route and make a get to the address:

http://localhost/test/public/employee/1

But i cant make it work on Laravel 8, according to my understanding i just need to do this:

public function show(Employee $employee)
{
    dd($employee);
}

But dd only returns an empty class:

If i do this:

public function show(Employee $employee)
{
    dd(Employee::find(1));
}

dd returns the correct data:

Route::resources([
    'employee' => EmployeeController::class,
]);

Can somebody help me find what am i missing?

Regards…

Answer

The problem was that i was naming the routes in spanish:

Route::apiResource('empleados', EmployeeController::class);

And because of this Laravel is expecting to receive the model encapsulated in a spanish verb class (empleados instead of employee), So i needed to rename the parameter inside the method controllers to receive the correct model:

    public function show(Employee $empleado)
    {
        return $empleado;
    }