Question

I am starting a Rails 3.2 application. I am using Git for my respository, and wanted to know which files I should keep versions of, and which files I should generate on the fly from command operations.

Specifically:

config/routes.rb
db/migrate/*  
db/schema.rb  
lib/assets/*  
lib/tasks/*  
script/rails
test/performance/browsing_test.rb  
tmp/*  
vendor/assests/*  
vendor/plugins/*  

Any others I should be aware of?

Answer 1

In the list, everything except tmp has to or can be tracked in the repo.

See here for a standard .gitignore for Rails: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Rails.gitignore

Once you add such a .gitignore to your repository, you can rest assured that files that need not be tracked and those that are generated are not added to your repository accidentally.