Unabel to assign roles using Tinker or Tinkerwell

[krismanning]

I have a problem adding roles to users either using Tinkerwell or Artisan Tinker using my production instance. The user is already an admin and I want to add an additional role to the user.

$kris = User::find(1);
$kris->assign("Editor+");
Bouncer::refresh();
$kris->getRoles();

Output:-

Illuminate\Support\Collection#3842 ▼
  all: array:1 [▼
    0 => "Admin"
  ]
}

This doesnt happen on my local dev environments (Windows or MacOs) where it works as expected. I havent tried adding the role through code yet but will do so asap.

And any ideas why this works in dev but not in prod?

Any help would be appreciated.