diff --git a/Rails.gitignore b/Rails.gitignore
index d9474d9da3b0db91791030afcc08fbc31415668a..4fae5d0a4464a416572089f08a0ee16df9fb4615 100644
--- a/Rails.gitignore
+++ b/Rails.gitignore
@@ -24,3 +24,8 @@ config/secrets.yml
 
 # unless supporting rvm < 1.11.0 or doing something fancy, ignore this:
 .rvmrc
+
+# if using bower-rails ignore default bower_components path bower.json files
+/vendor/assets/bower_components
+*.bowerrc
+bower.json