The issue you are having is restify does not and current will not have a middleware layer.
The below is from the author of restify
I've thought about this quite a bit, and the thing that worries me here is signing up for compatibility with connect evermore. I don't have control or input over what they decide to do. This seems more in the vein of "if it works, great".
I'm going to close this out with a "won't fix" for now :\
https://github.com/mcavage/node-restify/issues/89
What you can do is use connect and add the restify server on top of that, then you can use connect to manage your middleware like everyauth.
Here is a great sample of this, I have it working great on my system as-is.
// Restify server config here
var server = restify.createServer({
name: 'restify-test',
version: '1.0.0',
});
// ...
// Connect config here
var connectApp = connect()
.use(connect.logger())
.use(connect.bodyParser())
.use(connect.query())
.use(connect.cookieParser())
// And this is where the magic happens
.use("/api", function (req, res) {
server.server.emit('request', req, res);
});
connectApp.listen(8080);
https://gist.github.com/2140974
Then you can add everyauth to connect as per the documents.
Hope that helps.