Webapp requires deploy after couch deploy

after recreating the dbs, i cannot sign up on https://dev.bitmask.net/users/new

i get no visual feedback that it fails (i'll create a seperate issue for this).

urchin's log shows this:

[Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:39:02 GMT] [info] [<0.26944.35>] [8c381bf5] undefined - - 'GET' /users/_design/User 404
[Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:39:02 GMT] [info] [<0.26944.35>] [8c381bf5] 127.0.0.1 localhost:4096 GET /users/_design/User 404 ok 3

production log:

Started POST "/1/users.json" for 87.167.224.52 at 2013-08-29 10:39:56 +0000
Processing by V1::UsersController#create as JSON
  Parameters: {"user"=>{"login"=>"varac", "password_salt"=>"[FILTERED]", "password_verifier"=>"[FILTERED]"}}
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 48ms

RestClient::Unauthorized (401 Unauthorized):
...

(from redmine: created on 2013-08-29, closed on 2013-11-28, relates #3597 (closed), relates #3600, relates #3820 (closed), relates #4460 (closed), relates #4511)