Which parts of a Ruby on Rails project should be checked into the repository?

Question

I am setting up a new source control repository for a Ruby on Rails project. I am using Mercurial and I am wondering which part of my local directory to check in.

The way I have it set up locally in the project workspace is the following file structure:

drwxr-xr-x 7 agenadinik agenadinik 4096 2011-04-27 09:58 app
drwxr-xr-x 5 agenadinik agenadinik 4096 2011-04-27 09:58 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 agenadinik agenadinik  154 2011-04-27 09:58 config.ru
drwxr-xr-x 3 agenadinik agenadinik 4096 2011-04-29 14:12 db
drwxr-xr-x 2 agenadinik agenadinik 4096 2011-04-27 09:58 doc
-rwxrwxrwx 1 agenadinik agenadinik  781 2011-05-05 18:57 Gemfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 agenadinik agenadinik 1745 2011-05-05 18:57 Gemfile.lock
drwxr-xr-x 3 agenadinik agenadinik 4096 2011-04-27 09:58 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 agenadinik agenadinik 4096 2011-04-27 09:58 log
drwxr-xr-x 3 agenadinik agenadinik 4096 2011-05-02 17:16 mysql2
drwxr-xr-x 5 agenadinik agenadinik 4096 2011-04-29 13:17 public
-rw-r--r-- 1 agenadinik agenadinik  264 2011-04-27 09:58 Rakefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 agenadinik agenadinik 9126 2011-04-27 09:58 README
drwxr-xr-x 2 agenadinik agenadinik 4096 2011-04-27 09:58 script
drwxr-xr-x 7 agenadinik agenadinik 4096 2011-04-27 09:58 test
drwxr-xr-x 6 agenadinik agenadinik 4096 2011-04-27 09:58 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 3 agenadinik agenadinik 4096 2011-04-27 09:58 vendor

Thanks, Alex

Answer 1

Gemfile.lock MUST be checked in!

Ignore

• tmp/
• db/*.sqlite
• public/system/*
• log/*