I'm trying to use acl module for user permissions.
I've installed the module with npm install acl --save
Added this lines to code
var acl = require('acl');
var redisClient = require('redis');
acl = new acl(new acl.redisBackend(redisClient, 'session'));
acl.allow('member', 'events', 'view');
TypeError: Object # has no method 'multi' at Object.RedisBackend.begin (workspace/server/node_modules/acl/lib/redis-backend.js:23:23) at Acl.allow (workspace/server/node_modules/acl/lib/acl.js:231:37) at Object. (workspace/server/app.js:24:5) at Module._compile (module.js:456:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10) at Object..js (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-dev/lib/hook.js:52:17) at Module.load (module.js:356:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12) at Module.require (module.js:364:17) at require (module.js:380:17)
Any ideas?
The issue was that the redisClient was not properly initialized.
//this line did the trick
var redisInstance = require('redis').createClient(6379, '127.0.0.1', {no_ready_check: true});
and then
acl = new acl(new acl.redisBackend(redisInstance, 'session'));