NetBeans 6.5 Rails Logging not working for me

[FoundLakes]

I apologize if I'm missing something, but as a relative newbie to RoR and Netbeans RoR, logging is not working for me. From what I understand, by default I can use the logger instance in Controllers and Models or the RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER constant elsewhere. For example, logger.debug 'info here'. But I've only been successful in logging something from the ApplicationController (shows up in log/development.log), not other controllers. RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER doesn't appear to work from anywhere, either. I'm running in Development mode in Netbeans 6.5 on RoR 2.1. Am I missing something obvious?

thanks
James