rails console not working in netbeans 6.1

Changing the last line of \ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-2.0.2\lib\commands\console.rb

from

exec "#{options[:irb]} #{libs} --simple-prompt"

to

exec "#{irb} #{libs} --noreadline --simple-prompt"

helps.

This problem is known since rails-1.1.2 or even earlier versions.

debugging rails in netbeans 6.1 on windows

You need these gems, not the latest releases and it should work.
* ruby-debug-base (0.9.3)
* ruby-debug-ide (0.1.9)

rubygems in netbeans behind authenticated proxy

For this to work in netbeans, don't enter any proxy in netbeans. Set environment variables for
HTTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY_USER, HTTP_PROXY_PASS and click noproxy in netbeans and it will work.

rubygems behind an authenticated proxy

so setting the --http-proxy variable on the command line including username and password seemed buggy.
I got it to work in windows by running


set HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy:port
set HTTP_PROXY_USER=username
set HTTP_PROXY_PASS=password

gem install rails --include-dependencies

pause

switch JRuby to Ruby in netbeans 6.1

So this took a while because after adding the ruby interpreter in Platform Manager, you also have to set the properties of your project to use the newly installed interpreter.