diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cfba75e0..61d374b5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-*.beam
 *.swp
 .DS_Store
 node_modules
+npm-debug.log
 tmp
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b7d79c04..cb88a490 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # assignments
 ASSIGNMENT ?= ""
 IGNOREDIRS := "node_modules"
-ASSIGNMENTS = $(shell find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | tr -d './' | sort | grep -Ev $(IGNOREDIRS))
+ASSIGNMENTS = $(shell find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -not -path '*/\.*' | tr -d './' | sort | grep -Ev $(IGNOREDIRS))
 
 # output directories
 TMPDIR ?= "/tmp"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index de27183e..49c4b724 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,20 @@
-# xJavaScript
+# xJavaScript [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/exercism/xjavascript.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/exercism/xjavascript)
 
 Exercism exercises in JavaScript
+
+## Running Unit Test Suite
+
+### All Assignments
+
+    % make test
+
+### Single Assignment
+
+    % make test-assignment ASSIGNMENT=wordy
+
 ## License
+
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
 Copyright (c) 2014 Katrina Owen, _@kytrinyx.com
+
diff --git a/assignments/javascript/.gitignore b/assignments/javascript/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 93f13619..00000000
--- a/assignments/javascript/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-node_modules
-npm-debug.log