The Projects window is the main entry point to your project sources. It shows a logical view of important project contents such as Source Files and Test Files (for Ruby Projects) or Controllers, Models, and Views (for Ruby on Rails projects). You can open the Projects window by choosing Window > Projects (Ctrl-1).
There are two types of Ruby projects that can be open in this window:
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Ruby Projects. Projects without Rails support that have only Source Files and Test Files folders for the files. If you right-click the main project node for a Ruby project, you have a few Ruby project choices, such as New (add files), Generate RDoc, and Run Rake Task. |
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Ruby on Rails Projects. Projects with Rails support for models, views, controllers, and databases that you can test quickly from the IDE and run in the server that you specified for the project. You can right-click the main project node and perform tasks such as adding new files, generating models, views, and controllers, migrating databases, running Rake tasks, and so on. |
See Working With NetBeans Ruby for a list of Ruby and Ruby on Rails tasks that you can do from this window.