Ruby Dropped in Netbeans 7,How to Use it in Netbeans7?

Question

In Netbeans 7, Ruby support was dropped:

Although our Ruby support has historically been well received, based on existing low usage trends we are

Answer 1

For Netbeans 7.3 you can install the recently released Ruby and Rails plugin by Tom Enebo.

You can follow these installation steps by nichot20:

1. Download the package (containing .jar, .nbm files and updates.xml)
2. Go to the plugins->settings tab
3. Add a new "Update Center" with a url of the form: file:///path/to/updates.xml
4. Do a refresh and then it all appears it the list of plug ins.