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Cannot overwrite model once compiled Mongoose

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Not Sure what I'm doing wrong, here is my check.js

var db = mongoose.createConnection('localhost', 'event-db');
db.on('error', console.error.bind(console, 'connection error:'));

var a1= db.once('open',function(){
var user = mongoose.model('users',{ 
       name:String,
       email:String,
       password:String,
       phone:Number,
      _enabled:Boolean
     });

user.find({},{},function (err, users) {
    mongoose.connection.close();
    console.log("Username supplied"+username);
    //doSomethingHere })
    });

and here is my insert.js

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/event-db')

var user = mongoose.model('users',{
     name:String,
     email:String,
     password: String,
     phone:Number,
     _enabled:Boolean
   });

var new_user = new user({
     name:req.body.name,
     email: req.body.email,
     password: req.body.password,
     phone: req.body.phone,
     _enabled:false
   });

new_user.save(function(err){
    if(err) console.log(err); 
   });

Whenever I'm trying to run check.js, I'm getting this error

Cannot overwrite 'users' model once compiled.

I understand that this error comes due to mismatching of Schema, but I cannot see where this is happening ? I'm pretty new to mongoose and nodeJS.

Here is what I'm getting from the client interface of my MongoDB: 

MongoDB shell version: 2.4.6 connecting to: test 
> use event-db 
  switched to db event-db 
> db.users.find() 
  { "_id" : ObjectId("52457d8718f83293205aaa95"), 
    "name" : "MyName", 
    "email" : "[email protected]", 
    "password" : "myPassword", 
    "phone" : 900001123, 
    "_enable" : true 
  } 
>

The error is occurring because you already have a schema defined, and then you are defining the schema again. Generally what you should do is instantiate the schema once, and then have a global object call it when it needs it. For example: user_model.js var mongoose = require('mongoose'); var Schema = mongoose.Schema; var userSchema = new Schema({ name:String, email:String, password:String, phone:Number, _enabled:Boolean }); module.exports = mongoose.model('users', userSchema); check.js var mongoose = require('mongoose'); var User = require('./user_model.js'); var db = mongoose.createConnection('localhost', 'event-db'); db.on('error', console.error.bind(console, 'connection error:')); var a1= db.once('open',function(){ User.find({},{},function (err, users) { mongoose.connection.close(); console.log("Username supplied"+username); //doSomethingHere }) }); insert.js var mongoose = require('mongoose'); var User = require('./user_model.js'); mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/event-db'); var new_user = new User({ name:req.body.name , email: req.body.email , password: req.body.password , phone: req.body.phone , _enabled:false }); new_user.save(function(err){ if(err) console.log(err); });

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