unable to add roles to user with meteor using '

Question

I'm trying to use the 'roles' package available on Atmosphere but I can't get it to work with Accounts.onCreateUser(), I can get the example on github. When I register a user, I want to add a role to them, when I test whether the role is assigned, it's not picking it up.

Here's my code

/server/users.js

Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options, user){
  var role = ['admin'];
  Roles.addUsersToRoles(user, role);
  return user;
});

/client/page.js

Template.hello.events({
  'click input': function () {
    var loggedInUser = Meteor.user();
    if (Roles.userIsInRole(loggedInUser, ['admin'])) {
      console.log("Hi Admin!");
    }else{
      console.log("Please Log In");
    }
  }
});

Answer 1

The accepted answer forces you to write boilerplate code for login logic given by meteor through accounts-ui/password. The other answers make assumptions about the underlying implementation and the timeout solution introduces a race condition.

Why not do this:

Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options, user) {

    ...

    Meteor.setTimeout(function () {
        Roles.addUsersToRoles(user._id, roles, group);
    },0);
    ...
  
});

You effectively add the role after whatever it is that triggered the onCreateUser call and use alanning's api to add to roles. (Tested with meteor 1.0, roles 1.2.13)