Use `\A` and `\z` in regexes instead of `^` and `$`.

app/controllers/application_controller.rb

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
   end
 
   def method_missing(method_sym, *arguments, &block)
-    if method_sym.to_s =~ /^authorize_(.*)!$/
+    if method_sym.to_s =~ /\Aauthorize_(.*)!\z/
       authorize_project!($1.to_sym)
     else
       super

app/helpers/application_helper.rb

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ module ApplicationHelper
 
     # If reference is commit id - we should add it to branch/tag selectbox
     if(@ref && !options.flatten.include?(@ref) &&
-       @ref =~ /^[0-9a-zA-Z]{6,52}$/)
+       @ref =~ /\A[0-9a-zA-Z]{6,52}\z/)
       options << ['Commit', [@ref]]
     end
 

app/helpers/gitlab_markdown_helper.rb

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ module GitlabMarkdownHelper
   def link_to_gfm(body, url, html_options = {})
     return "" if body.blank?
 
-    escaped_body = if body =~ /^\<img/
+    escaped_body = if body =~ /\A\<img/
                      body
                    else
                      escape_once(body)
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ module GitlabMarkdownHelper
       @project.path_with_namespace,
       path_with_ref(file_path),
       file_path
-    ].compact.join("/").gsub(/^\/*|\/*$/, '') + id
+    ].compact.join("/").gsub(/\A\/*|\/*\z/, '') + id
   end
 
   def sanitize_slashes(path)

app/helpers/submodule_helper.rb

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ module SubmoduleHelper
 
   def relative_self_url?(url)
     # (./)?(../repo.git) || (./)?(../../project/repo.git) )
-    url =~ /^((\.\/)?(\.\.\/))(?!(\.\.)|(.*\/)).*\.git\Z/ || url =~ /^((\.\/)?(\.\.\/){2})(?!(\.\.))([^\/]*)\/(?!(\.\.)|(.*\/)).*\.git\Z/
+    url =~ /\A((\.\/)?(\.\.\/))(?!(\.\.)|(.*\/)).*\.git\z/ || url =~ /\A((\.\/)?(\.\.\/){2})(?!(\.\.))([^\/]*)\/(?!(\.\.)|(.*\/)).*\.git\z/
   end
 
   def standard_links(host, namespace, project, commit)

app/models/project_services/irker_service.rb

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ class IrkerService < Service
 
   def consider_uri(uri)
     # Authorize both irc://domain.com/#chan and irc://domain.com/chan
-    if uri.is_a?(URI) && uri.scheme[/^ircs?$/] && !uri.path.nil?
+    if uri.is_a?(URI) && uri.scheme[/^ircs?\z/] && !uri.path.nil?
       # Do not authorize irc://domain.com/
       if uri.fragment.nil? && uri.path.length > 1
         uri.to_s

app/models/repository.rb

@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ class Repository
   def changelog
     cache.fetch(:changelog) do
       tree(:head).blobs.find do |file|
-        file.name =~ /^(changelog|history)/i
+        file.name =~ /\A(changelog|history)/i
       end
     end
   end
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ class Repository
   def license
     cache.fetch(:license) do
       tree(:head).blobs.find do |file|
-        file.name =~ /^license/i
+        file.name =~ /\Alicense/i
       end
     end
   end

app/services/create_tag_service.rb

@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@ class CreateTagService < BaseService
       return error('Tag already exists')
     end
 
-    if message
-      message.gsub!(/^\s+|\s+$/, '')
-    end
+    message.strip! if message
 
     repository.add_tag(tag_name, ref, message)
     new_tag = repository.find_tag(tag_name)

app/workers/post_receive.rb

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ class PostReceive
       log("Check gitlab.yml config for correct gitlab_shell.repos_path variable. \"#{Gitlab.config.gitlab_shell.repos_path}\" does not match \"#{repo_path}\"")
     end
 
-    repo_path.gsub!(/\.git$/, "")
-    repo_path.gsub!(/^\//, "")
+    repo_path.gsub!(/\.git\z/, "")
+    repo_path.gsub!(/\A\//, "")
 
     project = Project.find_with_namespace(repo_path)
 

config/initializers/devise.rb

@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ Devise.setup do |config|
   if Gitlab::LDAP::Config.enabled?
     Gitlab.config.ldap.servers.values.each do |server|
       if server['allow_username_or_email_login']
-        email_stripping_proc = ->(name) {name.gsub(/@.*$/,'')}
+        email_stripping_proc = ->(name) {name.gsub(/@.*\z/,'')}
       else
         email_stripping_proc = ->(name) {name}
       end