# Gitignore **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 20, 2010, 7:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gitignore/190435 "2010-06-20T07:46:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![giorgio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@giorgio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giorgio)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 7:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gitignore/190435/1 "2010-06-20T07:46:10Z")
I have just started using rad rails again after a long stint on netbeans. It seems to generate loads of files like: app/views/group/.tmp\_group\_summary.rhtml.99932 I want to make git ignore all these .tmp files but my entries in gitignore have so far been of no avail. Anybody give me a suggestion? Cheers George ---
**Author:** ![giorgio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@giorgio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giorgio)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gitignore/190435/2 "2010-06-20T20:32:21Z")
I like the IDE approach overall. Netbeans has some nice autocomplete features that really help in writing the code, but then again a simple editor can work well too. For the gitignore, just add a pattern of which files you don’t want included either in the root directory or in the specific directory. Something along the lines of tmp\_\* Should be a setting in rad rails for the backups as well. Hope this helps. p.s. [GitHub Support](http://help.github.com/git-ignore/) ---
**Author:** ![giorgio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@giorgio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giorgio)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gitignore/190435/3 "2010-06-20T20:38:12Z")
On 20/06/2010 07:44, giorgio wrote: > I have just started using rad rails again after a long stint on > netbeans. > > It seems to generate loads of files like: > app/views/group/.tmp\_group\_summary.rhtml.99932 > > I want to make git ignore all these .tmp files but my entries in > gitignore have so far been of no avail. > > Anybody give me a suggestion? .tmp\_\* will ignore the file given as an example above - you would just need to ensure that it doesn’t ignore anything you would want to keep as it is a fairly large net 🙂 Rory ---
**Author:** ![giorgio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@giorgio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giorgio)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gitignore/190435/4 "2010-06-20T17:21:43Z")
giorgio wrote: > I have just started using rad rails again after a long stint on > netbeans. Why? That’s going from bad to worse. NetBeans: excellent IDE, too heavy for Rails Aptana: less good IDE, _still_ too heavy for Rails Just forget about IDEs and use a good editor such as KomodoEdit. Rails doesn’t benefit from the use of an IDE. > It seems to generate loads of files like: > app/views/group/.tmp\_group\_summary.rhtml.99932 > > I want to make git ignore all these .tmp files but my entries in > gitignore have so far been of no avail. > > Anybody give me a suggestion? You’ll probably get better answers in a Git forum. This is not a Rails question. > Cheers > George ## Best, Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![giorgio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@giorgio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giorgio)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gitignore/190435/5 "2010-06-28T04:17:49Z")
I have \*_//.tmp as one line in my gitignore but I still get the files appearing when I do a “git status” so I obviously have got it wrong. Maybe I should just put .tmp_ Cheers George PS Thanks for all the advice on ides … but that wasn’t really the question!