Rails: .gitignore still tracking my database.yml file

Question

I have like 4 guys in my team and they constantly have to change the socket of the database because they have different paths for it, well it is becoming annoying, I tried to add database.yml to the .gitignore:

/config/database.yml

But for some weird reason when I edit the file and make a git statusit still is being tracked!! can someone tell me what could be?

Once you added that file into repo, you need to do `git rm FILEPATH`. — shirakia, Nov 02 '15 at 04:56
you proably added it to your git repo in the past http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11451535/gitignore-not-working — Srgrn, Nov 02 '15 at 05:33

sugaryourcoffee · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-02T18:28:38.127

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Try this:

$ echo config/database.yml >> .gitignore
$ mv config/database.yml config/database.yml.example
$ git add .
$ git commit -am "put database.yml to .gitignore and and rename"
$ cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml

edited Nov 02 '15 at 18:28

answered Nov 02 '15 at 18:15

sugaryourcoffee

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Still need to tell git to remove it from the existing repo, eg the rm with -cached. – Dave Newton Nov 02 '15 at 18:18
What I've forgot in the description is the `$ git add .`. To double check I've tried it again and it worked. – sugaryourcoffee Nov 02 '15 at 18:30

Rails: .gitignore still tracking my database.yml file

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