MongooseJS cannot retrieve data after saving it - node.js

Question

I have a simple ExpressJS app and I'm trying to add user authentication to it using passport, passport-local and passport-local-mongoose, but after I save a user's data on db, mongoose fails to retrieve it, although I can see the data through mongo cli.
At the main express module I have:
// Passport session setup.
var User = require("./models/user");
passport.use(new LocalStrategy(User.authenticate()));
passport.serializeUser(User.serializeUser());
passport.deserializeUser(User.deserializeUser());
My User model module have:
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var passportLocalMongoose = require('passport-local-mongoose');
// User Schema
var User = new Schema({
username: { type: String, required: true, unique: true },
password: { type: String, required: true}
});
User.plugin(passportLocalMongoose);
module.exports = mongoose.model('User', User);
At my routes module, I create a user with the following code:
router.post('/register', function(req, res) {
var u = req.body.username;
var p = req.body.password;
console.log('Creating account for ' + u + ':' + p);
// Store client on DB
var usr = new User({ username: u, password: p });
usr.save(function(err) {
if(err) {
console.log(err);
return res.render('register', {title: 'Register', error: err.userMessage});
} else {
console.log('user: ' + usr.username + " saved.");
passport.authenticate('local')(req, res, function () {
return res.redirect('/dashboard');
});
}
});
});
But when I try to authenticate a user with the passport.authenticate method, mongoose cannot find the user at the db, as I can see on the mongoose logs:
Login request # 1422120637815
Mongoose: users.findOne({ username: 'e#e.com' }) { fields: undefined }
But at mongo cli I can see the data:
> db.User.find()
{ "username" : "e#e.com", "password" : "123", "_id" : ObjectId("54c3d688fc71a4001db30612"), "__v" : 0 }

Answer 1

Mongoose is looking for a collection named 'users', but it looks like your data is stored in 'User'. The API for model() is mongoose#model(name, [schema], [collection], [skipInit]). so you can force the collection name by adding a third parameter e.g.
module.exports = mongoose.model('User', User, 'User');
EDIT1:
Try using the built-in register() method in mongoose-local
router.post('/register', function(req, res) {
var u = req.body.username;
var p = req.body.password;
console.log('Creating account for ' + u + ':' + p);
// Store client on DB
Account.register(new Account({ username: req.body.username }), req.body.password, function(err) {
if(err) {
console.log(err);
return res.render('register', {title: 'Register', error: err.userMessage});
} else {
passport.authenticate('local')(req, res, function () {
return res.redirect('/dashboard');
});
}
});
});