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    Hack `Prependable` class methods for `override` · c6590e57
    Lin Jen-Shin authored
    `ActiveSupport::Concern` uses an unusual way to chain class methods,
    which does not exactly follow how Ruby chains the classes.
    
    In particular, it's like Concern reinvents the object model and
    builds the ancestors chain in runtime, rather than at the compile time.
    This for sure introduced a lot of culprits.
    
    This fix is aiming for restoring the class methods for the module
    which is defining the class methods. To be specific, consider this case:
    
    ``` ruby
    module Base
      extend ActiveSupport::Concern
    
      class_methods do
        def f
        end
      end
    end
    
    module Derived
      include Base
    end
    ```
    
    What would you expect for this?
    
    ``` ruby
    Base.f    # => NoMethodError
    Derived.f # => nil
    ```
    
    With this hack, it'll allow `Base.f` to work, which can make `override`
    check for class methods. Before this hack it'll not work due to this
    disparity.
    
    Since so far the only place we really need this is when we're checking
    `override` with those class methods, we don't have to take the risk to
    change how it works in production, but just how we check `override`.
    
    This hack is needed for `override` because we're checking `prepend` at
    where it's defined, not at where it's eventually included into a class,
    and that's where Concern does the magic.
    
    If one day we can stop using `ActiveSupport::Concern`, and just do
    plain old good Ruby, we'll be free from all those wild hacks.
    
    See original bug report: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/23932
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