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Hi everyone 👋
I’m using Laravel 11 with Laratrust v8.3, and I’ve noticed something strange on my production server.
When I assign or update a user’s role, it doesn’t take effect immediately — the user still has the old role or permissions.
But when I run:
php artisan optimize:clear
it suddenly starts working correctly.
My Setup
Composer package: "santigarcor/laratrust": "^8.3"
.env APP_ENV=production
What I’ve Tried
Role assignment using attachRole() and syncRoles()
Checked the database — roles are stored correctly
Cleared Laravel config, route, and cache separately (still not working)
Only optimize:clear makes it reflect properly
Additional Note
This issue happens only on the production server — on local and UAT environments, everything works perfectly fine without clearing cache.
It is not a problem, it is normal behavior as the package uses caching for performance: https://laratrust.santigarcor.me/docs/8.x/troubleshooting.html
All you need to do is cache:clear.
on local and UAT environments, everything works perfectly fine without clearing cache
Yes, because internal data of the package is not cached in development.
Thanks for the reply!
But how can I handle this? My application has many users, and I cannot run cache:clear every time I assign a role to a user.
I would suggest running that once per night or something similar, that way you can inform the users that it will take up to 24h before the new permissions are in place.
I see the package has cache settings in config/laratrust.php. It seems all you need to set LARATRUST_ENABLE_CACHE=false in .env file and your permissions will not be cached at all.
Other approach would be to create simple artisan command which assigns or removes privileges and clears cache after that.
Something like that:
php artisan app:privileges [add|revoke] [user_id] [privilege_name]
Also you can lower cache.expiration_time in config/laratrust.php, 300 seconds would be fine.
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