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Ruby .gitignore Template

Ruby installed gems, bundler cache, coverage reports, and documentation. Generated and merged deterministically with upstream GitHub repository patterns to keep your repository clean of package directories, temporary build artifacts, and local environment files.

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### Ruby ###
*.gem
*.rbc
/.config
/coverage/
/InstalledFiles
/pkg/
/spec/reports/
/spec/examples.txt
/test/tmp/
/test/version_tmp/
/tmp/
# Used by dotenv library to load environment variables.
# .env
# Ignore Byebug command history file.
.byebug_history
## Specific to RubyMotion:
.dat*
.repl_history
build/
*.bridgesupport
build-iPhoneOS/
build-iPhoneSimulator/
## Specific to RubyMotion (use of CocoaPods):
#
# We recommend against adding the Pods directory to your .gitignore. However
# you should judge for yourself, the pros and cons are mentioned at:
# https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/using-cocoapods.html#should-i-check-the-pods-directory-into-source-control
#
# vendor/Pods/
## Documentation cache and generated files:
/.yardoc/
/_yardoc/
/doc/
/rdoc/
## Environment normalization:
/.bundle/
/vendor/bundle
/lib/bundler/man/
# for a library or gem, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
# intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
# Gemfile.lock
# .ruby-version
# .ruby-gemset
# unless supporting rvm < 1.11.0 or doing something fancy, ignore this:
.rvmrc
# Used by RuboCop. Remote config files pulled in from inherit_from directive.
# .rubocop-https?--*
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Deterministic

Raw Ruby .gitignore

Crawlable upstream source template
ruby.gitignore•57 lines•UTF-8
*.gem
*.rbc
/.config
/coverage/
/InstalledFiles
/pkg/
/spec/reports/
/spec/examples.txt
/test/tmp/
/test/version_tmp/
/tmp/
# Used by dotenv library to load environment variables.
# .env
# Ignore Byebug command history file.
.byebug_history
## Specific to RubyMotion:
.dat*
.repl_history
build/
*.bridgesupport
build-iPhoneOS/
build-iPhoneSimulator/
## Specific to RubyMotion (use of CocoaPods):
#
# We recommend against adding the Pods directory to your .gitignore. However
# you should judge for yourself, the pros and cons are mentioned at:
# https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/using-cocoapods.html#should-i-check-the-pods-directory-into-source-control
#
# vendor/Pods/
## Documentation cache and generated files:
/.yardoc/
/_yardoc/
/doc/
/rdoc/
## Environment normalization:
/.bundle/
/vendor/bundle
/lib/bundler/man/
# for a library or gem, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
# intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
# Gemfile.lock
# .ruby-version
# .ruby-gemset
# unless supporting rvm < 1.11.0 or doing something fancy, ignore this:
.rvmrc
# Used by RuboCop. Remote config files pulled in from inherit_from directive.
# .rubocop-https?--*

Key Pattern Breakdown

Dependencies & Package Registries

External libraries and package manager directories installed locally rather than stored in version control.

/vendor/bundle

Build Outputs & Compiled Artifacts

Generated binary files, compilation targets, and distribution bundles that can be reliably reproduced from source.

build/build-iPhoneOS/build-iPhoneSimulator/

Execution Caches & Runtime Logs

Diagnostic logs, runtime metadata, test coverage reports, and incremental compiler caches that cause noisy repository diffs.

/coverage//test/tmp//test/version_tmp//tmp/

Source & Verification

License: CC0-1.0

Place this file in the root directory of your project as .gitignore. Changes take effect on newly added or untracked files.