Adding existing Ruby project to git

Create a new repository in Github. I created a private one. Then I went through the following steps :

  cd <existing_project_dir>
  git init
  touch README
  git add README
  git commit -m 'first commit'
  git remote add origin git@github.com:joydiph/<project_name>.git
  git push origin master

With git set and connected, I added the existing files and pushed to the git repository

 git add .
 git commit -m 'initial upload'
 git push

It took several minutes before the files showed up in the git
repository