Ignore *.gz files that are generated from 'rake assets:precompile'

[Alamoz]

*.gz files generated from 'rake assets:precompile' are a hassle when deploying your rails app to a production server. These should be ignored by git.

[josevalim]

Sorry, why are they a hassle?

[Alamoz]

OK, I see your point. I was having problems with git pulls on my production server, but thinking it through some files must have gotten out of sync. Logically, the files placed in /app/assets/ get assembled into files in /public/ and they should be the same on the dev server as on the prod server so it shouldn't cause a problem. Better, running 'rake assets:precompile' on the dev box and then pushing to prod server saves doing it there. I've just upgraded to Rails 3.1 and am still getting use to it.

[Alamoz]

Probably a good idea for people to .gitignore /public/ if they are using the asset pipeline, especially if they are doing some kind of content management where images are uploaded. They are likely not going to want to upload all the images on their development machine that they will have uploaded on their production server. So perhaps placing /public/ in .gitignore is a good default? Their stylesheets and javascripts will be version controlled under /app/assets/, so their code will maintain integrity that way.