# IronRuby on NetBeans **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [October 2, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-netbeans/176570 "2009-10-02T10:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shayfriedman)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-netbeans/176570/1 "2009-10-02T10:21:53Z")
Hi friends, I was trying to use IronRuby as a Ruby platform in NetBeans but without any success. It keeps telling me that the interpreter doesn’t seem to be a valid Ruby interpreter. This is what I have tried without success: - I figured out that NetBeans was trying to run a file on the path “C:\program files\NetBeans 6…” which has spaces, so I tried to point it to a batch file I had created that executes ir “%\*”. No success. - Tried to move NetBeans to a directory with no spaces at the path. No success. I guess it’s something more than just doing that. From NetBeans log I can see that it fails every time with the next error: WARNING [org.netbeans.api.ruby.platform.RubyPlatformManager]: Detection of platform timeouted Is someone familiar enough with NetBeans to find the reason for that? Thanks! Shay. ---
**Author:** ![shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shayfriedman)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 10:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-netbeans/176570/2 "2009-10-02T10:37:42Z")
## I guess you’d have to make ironruby a known platform for Netbeans, perhaps they only check for executable names that have ruby in them. you can try to symlink (ntfslink i believe) ir.exe to ironruby.exe and see where that gets you. (copying should also work) I’m using Rubymine, very similar to netbeans but works with IronRuby. Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto C. Blog: [http://flanders.co.nz](http://flanders.co.nz) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/casualjim](http://twitter.com/casualjim) Author of IronRuby in Action ([http://manning.com/carrero](http://manning.com/carrero)) ---
**Author:** ![shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shayfriedman)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-netbeans/176570/3 "2009-10-02T18:27:50Z")
I’ve recently fixed issues with spaces in paths in %x{}. So maybe the latest IronRuby build would work if this is the blocker. Tomas From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Shay F. Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 1:17 AM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby on NetBeans Hi friends, I was trying to use IronRuby as a Ruby platform in NetBeans but without any success. It keeps telling me that the interpreter doesn’t seem to be a valid Ruby interpreter. This is what I have tried without success: - I figured out that NetBeans was trying to run a file on the path “C:\program files\NetBeans 6…” which has spaces, so I tried to point it to a batch file I had created that executes ir “%\*”. No success. - Tried to move NetBeans to a directory with no spaces at the path. No success. I guess it’s something more than just doing that. From NetBeans log I can see that it fails every time with the next error: WARNING [org.netbeans.api.ruby.platform.RubyPlatformManager]: Detection of platform timeouted Is someone familiar enough with NetBeans to find the reason for that? Thanks! Shay. ---
**Author:** ![shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shayfriedman)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-netbeans/176570/4 "2009-10-02T17:45:05Z")
I don’t know about ntfslink, but I know mklink will work for NTFS symlinks and hard links (and junctions) JD From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 1:31 AM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby on NetBeans I guess you’d have to make ironruby a known platform for Netbeans, perhaps they only check for executable names that have ruby in them. you can try to symlink (ntfslink i believe) ir.exe to ironruby.exe and see where that gets you. (copying should also work) ## I’m using Rubymine, very similar to netbeans but works with IronRuby. Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto C. Blog: [http://flanders.co.nz](http://flanders.co.nz) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/casualjim](http://twitter.com/casualjim) Author of IronRuby in Action ([http://manning.com/carrero](http://manning.com/carrero)) On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Shay F. \ wrote: Hi friends, I was trying to use IronRuby as a Ruby platform in NetBeans but without any success. It keeps telling me that the interpreter doesn’t seem to be a valid Ruby interpreter. This is what I have tried without success: - I figured out that NetBeans was trying to run a file on the path “C:\program files\NetBeans 6…” which has spaces, so I tried to point it to a batch file I had created that executes ir “%\*”. No success. - Tried to move NetBeans to a directory with no spaces at the path. No success. I guess it’s something more than just doing that. From NetBeans log I can see that it fails every time with the next error: WARNING [org.netbeans.api.ruby.platform.RubyPlatformManager]: Detection of platform timeouted Is someone familiar enough with NetBeans to find the reason for that? Thanks! Shay. * * * Shay F. Author of IronRuby Unleashed [http://www.IronShay.com](http://www.IronShay.com) Follow me: [http://twitter.com/ironshay](http://twitter.com/ironshay) * * * Ironruby-core mailing list removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core)