.ackrc

#ack is a tool like grep, designed for programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code
 
#to install ack, see http://betterthangrep.com/
#to use ack, launch terminal (mac osx) and type 'ack <some_keywords>'
#ack will search all files in the current directory & sub-directories
 
#here's how I have my config file setup. this file is located on mac osx here
# ~/.ackrc
 
# Always sort the files
#--sort−files
 
# Always color, even if piping to a another program
# --color
 
# Use "less −r" as my pager
# --pager="less -R"
 
--ignore-dir=.idea/
--ignore-dir=log/
--ignore-dir=coverage/
--ignore-dir=public/uploads/
--ignore-dir=public/assets/
--ignore-dir=public/system/
--ignore-dir=.git/
--ignore-dir=tmp
--ignore-dir=node_modules/
--ignore-dir=bower_components/
 
#make sure ack knows how to search common filetypes used in rails projects
--type-add=ruby=.rselm,.feature,.ru,.lock
--type-set=coffeescript=.coffee
--type-set=coffee=.coffee
--type-set=slim=.slim
--type-set=skim=.skim
--type-set=haml=.haml
--type-set=tpl=.haml,.slim,.html,.jade,.skim
 
#make sure ack knows how to search common filetypes used in node.js projects
--type-set=coffee=.coffee
--type-set=jade=.jade
--type-set=feature=.feature
--type-set=json=.json

--ignore-file=ext:xml