It seems that ''-n'' command line option for rspec stopped working as of rspec 1.1.3. I think this may be related to why I can''t get NetBeans to run focussed specs anymore. Does this work for others? I''m using jruby but I don''t think that''s the issue. http://ruby.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=148462 -lenny