From a827acb281e67669f131ce95a45ceca56e0699ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Luke \"Jared\" Bennett" <lbennett@gitlab.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 22:14:42 +0100
Subject: altered the exists action to avoid 404ing

---
 app/controllers/users_controller.rb | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/controllers/users_controller.rb b/app/controllers/users_controller.rb
index 7ce4a75ffc1..6931a553205 100644
--- a/app/controllers/users_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/users_controller.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 class UsersController < ApplicationController
   skip_before_action :authenticate_user!
-  before_action :user
+  before_action :user, except: [:exists]
   before_action :authorize_read_user!, only: [:show]
 
   def show
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ class UsersController < ApplicationController
   end
 
   def exists
-    render json: { exists: !user.nil? }
+    render json: { exists: !User.find_by_username(params[:username]).nil? }
   end
 
   private
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