I added secret_token.rb file to the gitignore as there are public repos sharing it.

.project files come from Aptana Studio, a Rails IDE.

The possible files could be database.yml or sold.yml

Unless full paths are used .gitignore, all matching files and folders will be ignored, however deep they are in the repo.

For example, ignoring log/* doesn't just ignore all log files, but also files such as lib/project/log/awesome_logger.rb.  It's a mistake I've made a couple of times but never seemed to have learned from.