diff --git a/lib/gitlab/dependency_linker/base_linker.rb b/lib/gitlab/dependency_linker/base_linker.rb
index 40a4ad113724786dc2f338b8567c011ea764b10b..5f4027e7e814923a7e6efed5355960a5665f4f7d 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/dependency_linker/base_linker.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/dependency_linker/base_linker.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 module Gitlab
   module DependencyLinker
     class BaseLinker
-      def self.link(plain_text, highlighted_text)
-        new(plain_text, highlighted_text).link
+      class_attribute :file_type
+
+      def self.support?(blob_name)
+        Gitlab::FileDetector.type_of(blob_name) == file_type
+      end
+
+      def self.link(*args)
+        new(*args).link
       end
 
       attr_accessor :plain_text, :highlighted_text
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/dependency_linker/gemfile_linker.rb b/lib/gitlab/dependency_linker/gemfile_linker.rb
index 45be760d89e5192ce59da51a3125dc4903aebd89..9b82e12652872ffa6031eb7c7701229de8d364f4 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/dependency_linker/gemfile_linker.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/dependency_linker/gemfile_linker.rb
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 module Gitlab
   module DependencyLinker
     class GemfileLinker < BaseLinker
-      def self.support?(blob_name)
-        blob_name == 'Gemfile' || blob_name == 'gems.rb'
-      end
+      self.file_type = :gemfile
 
       private
 
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/file_detector.rb b/lib/gitlab/file_detector.rb
index f8b3d0b4965b21083938a58fd5b9058bb69eb45c..c6a89597b23603a1fc0cf630380bd86442f23cbb 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/file_detector.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/file_detector.rb
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ module Gitlab
       version: 'version',
       gitignore: '.gitignore',
       koding: '.koding.yml',
+      gemfile: /\A(Gemfile|gems\.rb)\z/,
       gitlab_ci: '.gitlab-ci.yml',
       avatar: /\Alogo\.(png|jpg|gif)\z/,
       route_map: 'route-map.yml'