I&#x27;m sorry to hear you had installation problems trying to develop for GitLab. Have you tried the GitLab development kit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab-development-kit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab-development-kit</a>? If still are interested and experience problems please email support@gitlab.com and reference this comment for help.<p>I agree with the article, the less dependencies the better. GitLab&#x27;s gemfile.lock <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab-ce&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Gemfile.lock" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab-ce&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Gemfile....</a> has over 1000 lines and GitLab uses a lot of memory. We try to be careful what we pull in but if anyone has suggestions which can be removed please let us know. Recently we found out that we still had to remove Redcloth as a dependency, it will be gone in GitLab 8.5.