All of this is on a windows xp box:
Netbeans managed to accept an existing rails project and allowed me to debug it just fine, but my project has a number of processing scripts that handle non-MVC aspects. The rails project is just a system for queuing requests for the execution of these scripts.
I've attempted to create netbeans projects using existing sources, but it fails for a number of reasons.
First, since I have a number of scripts in one place, netbeans complains that I can't add a source directory to the project because it already belongs to another project. If I put the script into its own, empty, directory and try to add that directory, netbeans stalls while trying to create the project and I have to end the process from the task manager.
If I create a new project for it, remove the default main.rb and replace it with the script I want to debug, the debug session will not start - netbeans complains that it cannnot find the program entry point.
It seems to me that if I can debug rails apps as easily as netbeans allows me to, that running a single standalone script would be trivial. What on earth am I missing?
UPDATE: Loading the script and doing "Debug/Debug File" isn't possible. The option is always greyed out, even for hello world.