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I'd like to know what's the difference between README and doc/README_FOR_APP? Thank you.

Joshua Muheim
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README_FOR_APP, as the name implies is documentation for your specific Rails application, it concerns the classes and methods that you will have written.

README is general documention for all Rails applications describing the structure of a Rails application and some web server settings. It's at a higher-level than README_FOR_APP.

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Most of the time, You can just care about README, If you use github, you can use README.md which is also a README, .md stands for markdown. It is used to generate the html summary you see at the bottom of projects.

Cam Song
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    The first two paragraphs of this answer are copied from [this January 2010 answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/2122515/578288) by [JRL](http://stackoverflow.com/users/35501/jrl). [The license for Stack Overflow content](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) allows copying text from answers only if you attribute the text to the original author. – Rory O'Kane Sep 10 '12 at 20:51