HI Black
My experience with netbeans was not a good one, at the time that I used it it didn't integrate with cvs very well. My group members had issues using it. I used netbeans with java. My only complaint was that it added alot of extra code by quantifying where the object came from instead of requiring the library.
I have heard it has gotten much better, but personally I use eclipse with rad rails. Its useful as my project uses BIRT and it integrates well with eclipse, and its nice to just switch between views.
White Wizzard