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// attempts to get flash/session accessible in any template
// - this middleware function fails and keep producing 'Error: req.flash() requires sessions'
// - this middleware has been place *after* session middleware in the stack
app.use(function(req,res, next){
	console.log("flash middleware")
	res.locals({
		session	: req.session,
		flash	: req.flash()
	});
}); 

Did you fix the Error: req.flash() requires sessions ? I don't know how to fix this error.

i think you need session in the express config. http://expressjs.com/guide.html#session-support

and before using flash, as shown in the example

Yeah! Actually I'm doing this...
var MemStore = require('connect').session.MemoryStore; app.configure(function() { app.set('views', __dirname + '/views'); app.set('view engine', 'jade'); app.use(express.logger()); app.use(express.bodyParser()); app.use(express.methodOverride()); app.use(app.router); app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public')); app.use(express.cookieParser()); app.use(express.session({ store: new MemStore({ reapInterval: 60000 * 10 }) , secret:"alejandromg"})); });

I'm getting this error too despite including the following in my code:

app.use(express.session({secret: 'foobar'}));

Any luck getting it to work?

@mhuggins Basically, what I've ended doing is this:

var app = express.createServer(
  express.bodyParser(),
  express.cookieParser('secretKey'),
  express.session({secret: 'secretKey'})
 );

Then:

app.dynamicHelpers({
   flash: function(req,res){
     return req.flash();
   } 
});

Check that I'm not passing those params inside app.configure(), I'm setting that when I create the express server.

@AlejandroMG, thx for the tip; works well

thanks @AlejandroMG, I'm was with "req.flash() requires sessions" error too, and this works for me as well.