Sails Sessions with Connect-Redis Work Locally, But Fail When Deployed to Heroku

[Chris Grant]

When lifted locally, sessions work just fine. However when the app is pushed to heroku, I get this error: 

Error logs

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080329+00:00 app[web.1]: TypeError: Cannot read property 'prototype' of undefined

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080330+00:00 app[web.1]:     at module.exports (/app/node_modules/connect-redis/lib/connect-redis.js:96:41)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080333+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Hook.bound [as initialize] (/app/node_modules/sails/node_modules/lodash/dist/lodash.js:729:21)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080323+00:00 app[web.1]: error: Could not load Connect session adapter :: connect-redis

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080327+00:00 app[web.1]: Error from adapter:

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080331+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Hook.Session.initialize (/app/node_modules/sails/lib/hooks/session/index.js:204:33)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.079573+00:00 app[web.1]: error: A hook (`session`) failed to load!

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080338+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Array.forEach (native)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080340+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Object.taskComplete (/app/node_modules/sails/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:418:13)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080339+00:00 app[web.1]:     at _each (/app/node_modules/sails/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:32:24)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080342+00:00 app[web.1]:     at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:345:15)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080343+00:00 app[web.1]:

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080337+00:00 app[web.1]:     at /app/node_modules/sails/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:419:17

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080344+00:00 app[web.1]: Do you have the Connect session adapter installed in this project?

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080349+00:00 app[web.1]:

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083893+00:00 app[web.1]: error: Could not load Connect session adapter :: connect-redis

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080345+00:00 app[web.1]: Try running the following command in your project's root directory:

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080346+00:00 app[web.1]: npm install connec...@1.4.5

2014-09-14T16:23:43.080347+00:00 app[web.1]: (Note that `connec...@1.5.0` introduced breaking changes- make sure you have v1.4.5 installed!)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083899+00:00 app[web.1]:

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083900+00:00 app[web.1]: Error from adapter:

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083902+00:00 app[web.1]: TypeError: Cannot read property 'prototype' of undefined

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083903+00:00 app[web.1]:     at module.exports (/app/node_modules/connect-redis/lib/connect-redis.js:96:41)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083905+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Hook.Session.initialize (/app/node_modules/sails/lib/hooks/session/index.js:204:33)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083906+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Hook.bound [as initialize] (/app/node_modules/sails/node_modules/lodash/dist/lodash.js:729:21)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083908+00:00 app[web.1]:     at /app/node_modules/sails/lib/hooks/index.js:132:16

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083912+00:00 app[web.1]:     at _each (/app/node_modules/sails/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:32:24)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083909+00:00 app[web.1]:     at /app/node_modules/sails/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:425:17

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083910+00:00 app[web.1]:     at /app/node_modules/sails/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:419:17

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083911+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Array.forEach (native)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083913+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Object.taskComplete (/app/node_modules/sails/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:418:13)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083915+00:00 app[web.1]:     at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:345:15)

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083916+00:00 app[web.1]:

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083917+00:00 app[web.1]: Do you have the Connect session adapter installed in this project?

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083918+00:00 app[web.1]: Try running the following command in your project's root directory:

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083920+00:00 app[web.1]: npm install connec...@1.4.5

2014-09-14T16:23:43.083921+00:00 app[web.1]: (Note that `connec...@1.5.0` introduced breaking changes- make sure you have v1.4.5 installed!)

config/session.js

  /***************************************************************************

  *                                                                          *

  * In production, uncomment the following lines to set up a shared redis    *

  * session store that can be shared across multiple Sails.js servers        *

  ***************************************************************************/

  adapter: 'connect-redis',

  /***************************************************************************

  *                                                                          *

  * The following values are optional, if no options are set a redis         *

  * instance running on localhost is expected. Read more about options at:   *

  * https://github.com/visionmedia/connect-redis                             *

  *                                                                          *

  *                                                                          *

  ***************************************************************************/

  host: process.env.REDIS_HOST,

  port: process.env.REDIS_PORT,

  ttl: 84000,

  db: process.env.REDIS_DB,

  pass: process.env.REDIS_PASSWORD,

  prefix: 'sess:'

[Jr Lim]

any progress on this?

[Jr Lim]

SOLVED: https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/issues/2379

On Monday, 15 September 2014 06:14:49 UTC+8, Chris Grant wrote: