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config/initializers/2_app.rb

@@ -5,6 +5,5 @@ module Gitlab
     Settings
   end
 
-  VERSION  = File.read(Gitlab.root.join("VERSION")).strip.freeze
   REVISION = Gitlab::Popen.popen(%W(#{config.git.bin_path} log --pretty=format:%h -n 1)).first.chomp.freeze
 end

doc/development/testing_guide/best_practices.md

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ really fast since:
 
 - Gems loading is skipped
 - Rails app boot is skipped
-- Gitlab::Shell and Gitaly setup are skipped
+- gitlab-shell and Gitaly setup are skipped
 - Test repositories setup are skipped
 
 Note that in some cases, you might have to add some `require_dependency 'foo'`

lib/gitlab.rb

 require_dependency 'gitlab/git'
 
 module Gitlab
-  COM_URL = 'https://gitlab.com'.freeze
-  APP_DIRS_PATTERN = %r{^/?(app|config|ee|lib|spec|\(\w*\))}
-  SUBDOMAIN_REGEX = %r{\Ahttps://[a-z0-9]+\.gitlab\.com\z}
-
   def self.root
     Pathname.new(File.expand_path('..', __dir__))
   end
 
+  COM_URL = 'https://gitlab.com'.freeze
+  APP_DIRS_PATTERN = %r{^/?(app|config|ee|lib|spec|\(\w*\))}
+  SUBDOMAIN_REGEX = %r{\Ahttps://[a-z0-9]+\.gitlab\.com\z}
+  VERSION = File.read(root.join("VERSION")).strip.freeze
+
   def self.com?
     # Check `gl_subdomain?` as well to keep parity with gitlab.com
     Gitlab.config.gitlab.url == COM_URL || gl_subdomain?

lib/settings.rb

+require 'settingslogic'
+
 require_dependency 'gitlab'
 
 class Settings < Settingslogic

spec/fast_spec_helper.rb

 require 'bundler/setup'
 
-require 'settingslogic'
-
 ENV['GITLAB_ENV'] = 'test'
 ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = 'test'
 ENV['IN_MEMORY_APPLICATION_SETTINGS'] = 'true'
 
-unless Kernel.respond_to?(:require_dependency)
-  module Kernel
+unless Object.respond_to?(:require_dependency)
+  class Object
     alias_method :require_dependency, :require
   end
 end
 
 # Defines Gitlab and Gitlab.config which are at the center of the app
-unless defined?(Gitlab) && Gitlab.respond_to?(:config)
+unless defined?(Gitlab.config)
   require_relative '../lib/settings'
   require_relative '../config/initializers/2_app'
 end