Commit c0fcb0c4 authored by Kenneth Chu's avatar Kenneth Chu Committed by Kenneth
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description: How to patch GitLab (Rails application) manually

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This patching process only works for Ruby source files (For example: Rails controllers, models, services, workers). It does **not** work for JavaScript or CSS changes, because frontend assets are pre-compiled during the package/image build and the source files are removed from the installation.

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## Patching an Omnibus install



Sometimes, we need to ask a customer to patch their systems manually. This may