diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 65bf729e6..93a5a3a05 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -55,3 +55,5 @@ yarn-debug.log*
 
 /app/assets/builds/*
 !/app/assets/builds/.keep
+
+spec/examples.txt
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index c50bec62f..462471744 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ RSpec.configure do |config|
   #   # Allows RSpec to persist some state between runs in order to support
   #   # the `--only-failures` and `--next-failure` CLI options. We recommend
   #   # you configure your source control system to ignore this file.
-  #   config.example_status_persistence_file_path = "spec/examples.txt"
+  config.example_status_persistence_file_path = "spec/examples.txt"
   #
   #   # Limits the available syntax to the non-monkey patched syntax that is
   #   # recommended. For more details, see: