How do I ignore folders and files when pushing to Heroku with a Rails app?

Question

I have a Rails 3.2.8 application and I don't want to push my spec folder and test log to Heroku. How would I do this? What about with a staging remote?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could put them in .gitignore, but that will exclude them from your repository as a whole.

The better solution is to push them to Heroku but prevent Heroku from deploying them to your dynos. You can configure that with a .slugignore file.