Laravel Spatie can() always returning false but hasPermissionTo() works

Question

I'm trying to create permissions and roles for users in a Laravel Project using Spatie creating permissions and assigning them to roles and then users works fine, but when checking for permission using can it always returns false even when the permission is assigned to the role, but hasPermissionTo works as expected.

Answer 1

as we discussed on the comments sometimes you have to clear your cache try running

php artisan optimize:clear