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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

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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,

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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. Ignoring files - GitHub Docs

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.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 :slight_smile:

Rory

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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!