diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac8f968
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Compiled source #
+###################
+*.com
+*.class
+*.dll
+*.exe
+*.o
+*.so
+*.pyc
+
+# Logs and databases #
+######################
+*.log
+
+# OS generated files #
+######################
+.DS_Store*
+ehthumbs.db
+Icon?
+Thumbs.db
diff --git a/4store-ruby.gemspec b/4store-ruby.gemspec
index 7dad338..2b3dc69 100644
--- a/4store-ruby.gemspec
+++ b/4store-ruby.gemspec
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.description = "A Ruby library to interact with a 4store instance (a scalable RDF store), see http://4store.org/"
   s.has_rdoc = true
   s.authors = ['Yves Raimond']
-  s.files = ["README", "4store-ruby.gemspec", "lib", "examples", "lib/4store-ruby.rb", "lib/four_store/store.rb", "lib/four_store/namespace.rb"]  
+  s.files = ["README", "4store-ruby.gemspec", "lib", "examples", "lib/4store-ruby.rb", "lib/four_store/store.rb", "lib/four_store/namespace.rb"]
   #s.test_files = ["spec/activerdf_reddy_spec.rb"]
   #s.rdoc_options = ["--main", "README.txt"]
   #s.extra_rdoc_files = ["History.txt", "Manifest.txt", "README.txt"]
diff --git a/lib/four_store/namespace.rb b/lib/four_store/namespace.rb
index 9ad78d1..9f5f69c 100644
--- a/lib/four_store/namespace.rb
+++ b/lib/four_store/namespace.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module FourStore
 
   class Namespace
-    
+
     @namespaces = {
       'rdf' => 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#',
       'dc' => 'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/',
diff --git a/lib/four_store/store.rb b/lib/four_store/store.rb
index 7bf0168..397f268 100644
--- a/lib/four_store/store.rb
+++ b/lib/four_store/store.rb
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def parse_sparql_xml_results(xml)
         result.elements.each do |binding|
           key = binding.attributes["name"]
           value = binding.elements[1].text
-          type = binding.elements[1].name 
+          type = binding.elements[1].name
           result_hash[key] = value
         end
         results.push result_hash