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For those of you who are confused as to why your root password is invalid according to netbeans for your ruby on rails project, I have a very quick fix.

According to the netbeans rubygems wiki page,

On some distribution like Ubuntu, the root password is not set by default.

So, you need to run the command "sudo passwd root" to set your root password. You can then use that password in netbeans.