diff --git a/lib/coffee-linter.js b/lib/coffee-linter.js
index cb617ad..a25f46e 100644
--- a/lib/coffee-linter.js
+++ b/lib/coffee-linter.js
@@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ function CoffeeScriptLinter (inputTree, options) {
   }
 
   if(fs.existsSync("./.coffeelintignore")) {
-    this.coffeelintignore = ignore().addIgnoreFile('./.coffeelintignore').createFilter();
+    this.coffeelintignore = ignore()
+      .add(fs.readFileSync('./.coffeelintignore').toString())
+      .createFilter();
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4ee3cfc..fb3bc5a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     "coffeelint": "^1.6.1",
     "ember-cli-version-checker": "^1.0.1",
     "fs-extra": "^0.11.1",
-    "ignore": "^2.2.15",
+    "ignore": "^3.0.9",
     "inflection": "^1.4.0",
     "json-stable-stringify": "^1.0.0",
     "lodash": "^2.4.1"