diff --git a/package.xml b/package.xml
index 7d9a17dd8d..5767e2b818 100644
--- a/package.xml
+++ b/package.xml
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ http://pear.php.net/dtd/package-2.0.xsd">
     -- The new error code is Squiz.PHP.DisallowMultipleAssignments.FoundInControlStructure
     -- All other multiple assignment cases use the existing error code Squiz.PHP.DisallowMultipleAssignments.Found
     -- Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
+  - Fixed bug #2391 : Sniff-specific ignore rules inside rulesets are filtering out too many files
+    -- Thanks to Willington Vega for the patch
   - Fixed bug #2478 : FunctionCommentThrowTag.WrongNumber when exception is thrown once but built conditionally
   - Fixed bug #2479 : Generic.WhiteSpace.ScopeIndent error when using array destructing with exact indent checking
   - Fixed bug #2498 : Squiz.Arrays.ArrayDeclaration.MultiLineNotAllowed autofix breaks heredoc
diff --git a/src/Filters/Filter.php b/src/Filters/Filter.php
index 013e839492..ac39be29b6 100644
--- a/src/Filters/Filter.php
+++ b/src/Filters/Filter.php
@@ -199,7 +199,17 @@ protected function shouldIgnorePath($path)
             $this->ignoreDirPatterns  = [];
             $this->ignoreFilePatterns = [];
 
-            $ignorePatterns = array_merge($this->config->ignored, $this->ruleset->getIgnorePatterns());
+            $ignorePatterns        = $this->config->ignored;
+            $rulesetIgnorePatterns = $this->ruleset->getIgnorePatterns();
+            foreach ($rulesetIgnorePatterns as $pattern => $type) {
+                // Ignore standard/sniff specific exclude rules.
+                if (is_array($type) === true) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                $ignorePatterns[$pattern] = $type;
+            }
+
             foreach ($ignorePatterns as $pattern => $type) {
                 // If the ignore pattern ends with /* then it is ignoring an entire directory.
                 if (substr($pattern, -2) === '/*') {
@@ -214,7 +224,7 @@ protected function shouldIgnorePath($path)
                     $this->ignoreFilePatterns[$pattern] = $type;
                 }
             }
-        }
+        }//end if
 
         $relativePath = $path;
         if (strpos($path, $this->basedir) === 0) {
@@ -229,11 +239,6 @@ protected function shouldIgnorePath($path)
         }
 
         foreach ($ignorePatterns as $pattern => $type) {
-            // Ignore standard/sniff specific exclude rules.
-            if (is_array($type) === true) {
-                continue;
-            }
-
             // Maintains backwards compatibility in case the ignore pattern does
             // not have a relative/absolute value.
             if (is_int($pattern) === true) {
diff --git a/tests/Core/Filters/Filter/AcceptTest.php b/tests/Core/Filters/Filter/AcceptTest.php
index d988b8ccbb..51e41a023e 100644
--- a/tests/Core/Filters/Filter/AcceptTest.php
+++ b/tests/Core/Filters/Filter/AcceptTest.php
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class AcceptTest extends TestCase
     public static function setUpBeforeClass()
     {
         $standard      = __DIR__.'/'.basename(__FILE__, '.php').'.xml';
-        self::$config  = new Config(["--standard=$standard"]);
+        self::$config  = new Config(["--standard=$standard", "--ignore=*/somethingelse/*"]);
         self::$ruleset = new Ruleset(self::$config);
 
     }//end setUpBeforeClass()
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ public function dataExcludePatterns()
                 [
                     '/path/to/src/Main.php',
                     '/path/to/src/Something/Main.php',
+                    '/path/to/src/Somethingelse/Main.php',
                     '/path/to/src/Other/Main.php',
                 ],
                 ['/path/to/src/Main.php'],
diff --git a/tests/Core/Filters/Filter/AcceptTest.xml b/tests/Core/Filters/Filter/AcceptTest.xml
index 73595ba3a7..3d3e1de080 100644
--- a/tests/Core/Filters/Filter/AcceptTest.xml
+++ b/tests/Core/Filters/Filter/AcceptTest.xml
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 <ruleset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="AcceptTest" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="phpcs.xsd">
     <description>Ruleset to test the filtering based on exclude patterns.</description>
 
-	<!-- Directory pattern. -->
-	<exclude-pattern>*/something/*</exclude-pattern>
-	<!-- File pattern. -->
-	<exclude-pattern>*/Other/Main\.php$</exclude-pattern>
+    <!-- Directory pattern. -->
+    <exclude-pattern>*/something/*</exclude-pattern>
+    <!-- File pattern. -->
+    <exclude-pattern>*/Other/Main\.php$</exclude-pattern>
 
     <rule ref="Generic">
-    	<!-- Standard specific directory pattern. -->
+        <!-- Standard specific directory pattern. -->
         <exclude-pattern>/anything/*</exclude-pattern>
-    	<!-- Standard specific file pattern. -->
+        <!-- Standard specific file pattern. -->
         <exclude-pattern>/YetAnother/Main\.php</exclude-pattern>
     </rule>
 </ruleset>