- Replace hardcoded authentication credentials in ApplicationController with class attributes.
- Introduce an initializer to set HTTP basic auth credentials dynamically from environment variables.
- Update the authenticate_if_needed method to utilize class attributes for username and password verification.

There was a mix of old + update code which caused the site to break on hyku.test, because of the favicon.

It has been updated to mostly match the way pals has it.
- scientist-softserv/palni-palci@3483da1

Rob left feedback confirming that sidekiq.rake was removed from hyku intentionally, so we shouldn't add it back.

passing an obj instead of a string breaks and fails bulkrax imports, when based_near is nil.

This commit should fix the cause of spec failures in has_matchers_decorator_spec.rb

Co-authored-by: Kirk Wang <[email protected]>