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Password reset page results in error 500

Created by: thomwiggers

The password reset page results in a 500 error due to what looks like the ruby equivalent of a null pointer.

Started GET "/users/password/new" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-09-29 01:28:54 +0200
Processing by Devise::PasswordsController#new as HTML
  Rendered devise/shared/_links.erb (0.3ms)
  Rendered devise/passwords/new.html.erb within layouts/application (2.0ms)
  Rendered layouts/_head.html.haml (1.1ms)
  Rendered layouts/_flash.html.haml (0.1ms)
  Rendered layouts/_head_panel.html.haml (1.7ms)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 8ms

ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `is_admin?' for nil:NilClass):
    12:         = form_tag search_path, method: :get do |f|
    13:           = text_field_tag "search", nil, placeholder: "Search", class: "search-input"
    14:       .fbtn
    15:         - if current_user.is_admin?
    16:           = link_to admin_root_path, class: "btn small", title: "Admin area" do
    17:             %i.icon-cog
    18:             Admin
  app/views/layouts/_head_panel.html.haml:15:in `_app_views_layouts__head_panel_html_haml___597222991215799015_53167500'
  app/views/layouts/application.html.haml:6:in `_app_views_layouts_application_html_haml__3495812077105832191_53112720' 

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