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I ran across this late yesterday night and thought I should share: If you are using NetBeans for your Ruby on Rails development and you are fond of creating custom rake tasks (as I am due to this awesome podcast), you need go around the NetBeans' GUI in this release. If you create the rakefile through the GUI, it will have a .rb extension (instead of the .rake extension) which Rails doesn't grok as a custom rake task. I get around it this way this way:

1. open a terminal and cd into your Rails application directory.
2. touch your custom rake file (with .rake extension) inside lib/tasks with something like:

   touch lib/tasks/example.rake

3. edit your custom task in the NetBeans editor and create the actual rake task. Maybe something like this excellent db:seed task.
4. use the Netbeans GUI to refresh your rake tasks (right-click the project and choose Run Rake Tasks > Refresh List
   

Hopefully, this will be added to the NetBeans 6.1 (per this bug request). Thanks to this entry at Quoted-Printable for the cool seed rakefile idea.