diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e23f50fa2..d2f0d02a7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 .rspec
 results
 tags
 .*.sw[op]
+
+# Now that there is a gemfile, RVM ignores rvmrc in parent directories, so a local one is required
+# to work around that.  Which we don't want committed, so we can ignore it here.
+/.rvmrc