Mongoose error: Schema hasn't been registered for model when populate

Question

I am trying to join two collections and being able to get the combined data. To do so using Mongoose, i am supposed to use the populate syntax to achieve that. I am receiving error that the Schema Schema hasn't been registered for 'User_Fb'. From my code, I have exported the models and required in my server.js but the error is still appearing. What have I done wrong?

feed_post.model.js

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var conn_new_app     = mongoose.createConnection('mongodb://localhost/new_app');
var User_fb = require('../models/fb_db.model');

var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var feed_postSchema = new Schema({
    user_id:  { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'User_Fb' },
    content: String,
    location: String,
    image: [{ type : String }]
});

var Feed_Post = conn_new_app.model('Feed_Post', feed_postSchema);

module.exports = Feed_Post;

fb_db.model.js

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var conn_new_app     = mongoose.createConnection('mongodb://localhost/new_app');
var Feed_Post = require('../models/feed_post.model');

var user_fb = new mongoose.Schema({
    name: String,
    location: String,
    fb_id: Number
});

var User_Fb = conn_new_app.model('User_Fb', user_fb);

module.exports = User_Fb;

server.js

var express = require('express'),

mongoose = require('mongoose'),
User = require('./app/models/user.model'),
Post = require('./app/models/post.model'),
Maptest = require('./app/models/maptest.model'),
Feed_Post = require('./app/models/feed_post.model'),
User_Fb = require('./app/models/fb_db.model'),

app = express();

app.get('/testget', function(req,res){
    Feed_Post.findOne().populate('user_id').exec(function(err, c) {
        if (err) { return console.log(err); }

        console.log(c.fk_user.userName);
    });
});

UPDATED from Pier-Luc Gendreau Answer's

fb_db.model.js

module.exports = function (connection) {
    var mongoose = require('mongoose');
    var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

    var user_fb = new mongoose.Schema({
        name: String,
        location: String,
        fb_id: Number
    });

    return connection.model('User_FB', user_fb);;
}

feed_post.model.js

module.exports = function (connection) {
    var mongoose = require('mongoose');
    var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

    var feed_postSchema = new Schema({
        user_id:  { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'User_Fb' },
        content: String,
        location: String,
        image: [{ type : String }]
    });

    return connection.model('Feed_Post', feed_postSchema);;
}

server.js

var express = require('express'),
app = express(),

mongoose = require('mongoose'),
conn_new_app = mongoose.createConnection('mongodb://localhost/new_app'),
User_Fb = require('./app/models/fb_db.model')(conn_new_app),
Feed_Post = require('./app/models/feed_post.model')(conn_new_app);

app.get('/testget', function(req,res){
    Feed_Post.find().populate('user_id').exec(function(err, res) {
        if (err) { return console.log(err); }
        console.log(res);
    });
});

Answer 1

This is all I had to do Customer.findOne({}).populate({ path: 'created_by', model: User }) instead of this Category.findOne({}).populate({'author'})

Answer 2

You can get the field you want by using select

Example to get the email of the customer:

Customer.findOne({}).populate({ path: 'created_by', model: User, select: 'email' })

More Details in mongoose documentation