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Netbeans Ruby integration attempts to write where Netbeans is installed. In most cases Netbeans is installed in the 'Program Files' directory under Vista (the default location). However, writing to the 'Program Files' directory is not recommended under Vista and in doing so causes the data to be "virtualized". Meaning the data will reside in c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore This is not the desired behavior, the application(s) should not write to any "protected" areas on Vista. Please see the following article for more details surrounding UAC security http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/magazine/cc138019.aspx It is also worth noting that GlassFish also behaves incorrectly as the domain is written there and the JRE does this also, attempting to write to c:\Windows\Sun\Java\Deployment
reassign to ruby for evaluation
Thanks for pointing to this. The part which is writing to the installation directory is the bundled JRuby. We are thinking about other scenarios, since similar problem might become issue under Linux as well, when NetBeans are installed in non-user writable directory. Will need some overhaul/redesign. Very likely not for 6.5.