CE: Use render_if_exists to hide EE specific codes

app/helpers/application_helper.rb

@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ require 'digest/md5'
 require 'uri'
 module ApplicationHelper
+  # See https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/ee_features.html#code-in-app-views
+  def render_if_exists(partial, locals = {})
+    render(partial, locals) if lookup_context.exists?(partial, [], true)
+  end
+
   # Check if a particular controller is the current one
   #
   # args - One or more controller names to check

app/views/admin/dashboard/index.html.haml

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 - breadcrumb_title "Dashboard"
 %div{ class: container_class }
+  = render_if_exists "admin/licenses/breakdown", license: @license
+
   .admin-dashboard.prepend-top-default
     .row
       .col-sm-4
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@
               %h3.text-center
                 Users:
                 = approximate_count_with_delimiters(User)
+            = render_if_exists 'users_statistics'
             %hr
             = link_to 'New user', new_admin_user_path, class: "btn btn-new"
       .col-sm-4
@@ -97,6 +100,9 @@
               = reply_email
               %span.light.pull-right
                 = boolean_to_icon Gitlab::IncomingEmail.enabled?
+
+            = render_if_exists 'elastic_and_geo'
+
             - container_reg = "Container Registry"
             %p{ "aria-label" => "#{container_reg}: status " + (Gitlab.config.registry.enabled ? "on" : "off") }
               = container_reg
@@ -144,6 +150,9 @@
                 GitLab Pages
                 %span.pull-right
                   = Gitlab::Pages::VERSION
+
+            = render_if_exists 'geo'
+
             %p
               Ruby
               %span.pull-right

doc/development/ee_features.md

@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ stub_licensed_features(variable_environment_scope: true)
 EE-specific comments should not be backported to CE.
+**Note:** This is only meant as a workaround, we should follow up and
+resolve this soon.
+
 ### Detection of EE-only files
 For each commit (except on `master`), the `ee-files-location-check` CI job tries
@@ -105,11 +108,14 @@ is applied not only to models. Here's a list of other examples:
 - `ee/app/services/foo/create_service.rb`
 - `ee/app/validators/foo_attr_validator.rb`
 - `ee/app/workers/foo_worker.rb`
+- `ee/app/views/foo.html.haml`
+- `ee/app/views/foo/_bar.html.haml`
 This works because for every path that are present in CE's eager-load/auto-load
 paths, we add the same `ee/`-prepended path in [`config/application.rb`].
-[`config/application.rb`]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/d278b76d6600a0e27d8019a0be27971ba23ab640/config/application.rb#L41-51
+This also applies to views.
+[`config/application.rb`]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/925d3d4ebc7a2c72964ce97623ae41b8af12538d/config/application.rb#L42-52
 ### EE features based on CE features
@@ -359,9 +365,37 @@ Blocks of code that are EE-specific should be moved to partials. This
 avoids conflicts with big chunks of HAML code that that are not fun to
 resolve when you add the indentation to the equation.
-EE-specific views should be placed in `ee/app/views/ee/`, using extra
+EE-specific views should be placed in `ee/app/views/`, using extra
 sub-directories if appropriate.
+Instead of using regular `render`, we should use `render_if_exists`, which
+will not render anything if it cannot find the specific partial. We use this
+so that we could put `render_if_exists` in CE, keeping code the same between
+CE and EE.
+
+Also, it should search for the EE partial first, and then CE partial, and
+then if nothing found, render nothing.
+
+This has two uses:
+
+- CE renders nothing, and EE renders its EE partial.
+- CE renders its CE partial, and EE renders its EE partial, while the view
+  file stays the same.
+
+The advantages of this:
+
+- Minimal code difference between CE and EE.
+- Very clear hints about where we're extending EE views while reading CE codes.
+- Whenever we want to show something different in CE, we could just add CE
+  partials. Same applies the other way around. If we just use
+  `render_if_exists`, it would be very easy to change the content in EE.
+
+The disadvantage of this:
+
+- Slightly more work while developing EE features, because now we need to
+  port `render_if_exists` to CE.
+- If we have typos in the partial name, it would be silently ignored.
+
 ### Code in `lib/`
 Place EE-specific logic in the top-level `EE` module namespace. Namespace the