# Ruby-ldap in Netbeans

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-in-netbeans/193994>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 27, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-in-netbeans/193994 "2010-08-27T16:25:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![CraftyTech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@CraftyTech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CraftyTech)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-in-netbeans/193994/1 "2010-08-27T16:25:42Z")

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Hello All,

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 I'm a newbie at Ruby and I have the following issue. I need to

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start writing Ruby code to manipulate Active Directory entries. When  
I do "import ‘ldap’ " it doesn’t work since I don’t have the ldap gem  
installed. (it works fine in my linux pc at home). So the questions  
is this:

In windows[XP] using Netbeans[JRuby], how do I add a gem for LDAP, or  
LDAP functionality in any form, so that I can move on with my coding/  
testing?

Thanks in advance,

Henry

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**Author:** ![CraftyTech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@CraftyTech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CraftyTech)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-in-netbeans/193994/2 "2010-08-30T12:09:38Z")

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Go to the Tools menu, under “Ruby Gems”. I believe you can install it  
there. Is that what you’re looking for?

Also, pulling in gems is usually done like this:

require ‘rubygems’  
require ‘ldap’

- Charlie