title: What is the best place to store static assets (files) in Rails ( pdf forms, xls files, etc)
body: <p>I have a bunch of static assets ( not jpg, css, &amp; js) - rather files like  pdf forms, xls that I need to serve to users. They rarely change. Before I used to store them in public folder, but with the introduction of the assets pipeline in rails 3.1 what is the best place to store files like that now now?</p>