Workaround for Ruby support on Netbeans 7.1

The main issues with getting a good release of community-ruby in the catalog for NB 7.1 are:

1. https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207075 -- Some infrastructure broke which makes it impossible to release at the moment. This may seem like the big problem but in fact….
2. Netbeans 7.1 updated some components (as software is known to do). One of those components was html.editor.lib. Ruby support was dependent on version 1, but NetBeans 7.1 only ships version 2 now. This is the main reason why the Ruby support from 7.0 is un-installable on 7.1.

If you are interested in installing preview1, then grab the preview zipfile. Once you have this file, unzip it (note location) and then within Netbeans 7.1 you can:

1. Select Tools->Plugins from menu
2. Select Downloaded tab
3. Press Add Plugins...
4. Navigate to where you unzipped the nbms files
5. Select all files which end in .nbms (you can do this all in one selection but if you include any non-nbms file it greys out the open button)
6. Accept and install…

http://blog.enebo.com/2012/01/workaround-for-ruby-support-on-netbeans.html