I am also facing the same problem. I moved my macros to class using below article... http://chrishayes.ca/blog/code/laravel-4-object-oriented-form-html-macros-classes-service-provider

I know this is an older question, but hopefully my answer could help you find the error at least. I have had issues where the debug page would not show up, giving a blank page instead. I had to dig into the log at app/storage/logs/laravel.log. There has always some type of output there that could point me in the right direction.

John,

I also keep checking laravel.log file first to find out error and try to fix in right way. With above approach I am getting Form class not found though I had run composer dumpautoload command and added file in composer.json

I am still looking for right way to fix this. I am sure there must be something there. Laravel is very powerful framework.

Thanks in advance.