I\'m creating a webservice and I want to store the source on github and run the app on heroku. I haven\'t seen my exact scenario addressed anywhere on the \'net so far, so
Just overwrite Rails' default README
file. There's no reason to keep it around. Put your other project-management-related stuff in the doc
directory. While you certainly have valid reasons for wanting to set it up the way you did, you're just creating a headache for yourself by going against convention, and it's probably not worth the benefit.