Resolve "Remove webpack-rails gem"
What does this MR do?
Removes the long-deprecated webpack-rails gem and incorporates the few remaining components that we rely on directly into the gitlab codebase.
The only code that was still used from this library included a very simple rake task, and a few methods which help us read and parse the webpack manifest.json file. All of the other logic was overridden and incorporated into GitLab long ago.
Moving this into our codebase will allow us to eventually rewrite the webpack-dev-server integration to utilize unix file sockets and address issues like https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/247049 and #213130 (closed)
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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?
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Informed Infrastructure department of a default or new setting change, if applicable per definition of done
Security
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Closes #34092 (closed)