Getting Closer to Using rSpec with NetBeans

I've gotten as far as running rSpec via JRuby outside of NetBeans. After I installed the NetBean Ruby components, I installed the rSpec gem. This created the .netbeans/dev/jruby-0.9.2 folder for me in my home directory, with the lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-0.8.2 subfolder. From the .netbeans/dev/jruby-0.9.2 directory (or after setting JRUBY_HOME) I can then run rspec:

bin/spec <COMMAND LINE OPTIONS>

Great. This works. Although, any practical solution is going to have to involve keeping JRuby's JVM running - the launch time is just too painful. From here I seem to have a few directions to try:

• Find the rSpec / Netbeans integration (assuming it exists - I've found nothing so far)
• Get autotest to run my specs continuously in a console
• Make it easy to run spec from the JRuby IRB (so that I don't have to start a new JVM each time)

Any help with any of these would be much appreciated.

PS Thanks to Chris Oliver Nutter for pointing me in the right direction with installing gems in NetBeans.