After installing Geany on Rails, the caret (text cursor) in Geany becomes white forever more, no matter the type of file that I open and no matter the color scheme that I choose in Geany. It makes it very hard to see the current position of the caret when I use a light color scheme.

I got this advice in the #geany chat:

filetypes.xml should be fine, filetypes.common would probably be better named default.styles thats mostly what it contains (but filetypes.common is the historical name) thats why it messes with colour schemes

Which worked for me (but I'm not using Rails now so I don't know if this breaks something useful for editing Rails-related files, please check this).

Regarding:
[build_settings]

%f will be replaced by the complete filename

%e will be replaced by the filename without extension

(use only one of it at one time)

compiler=ruby1.8 -c "%f"
run_cmd=ruby1.8 "%f"

I don't know if it makes a difference but maybe mention could be made in the README that these should be changed to:
compiler=ruby2.0 -c "%f"
run_cmd=ruby2.0 "%f"
for those not using earlier ruby versions.

It would be great if there was a cucumber syntax support in Geany (on Rails)

I'm new to git and I have a hard time figuring out how to install this. I have no idea how to "just merg[e] the geany directory". An example on terminal would be helpful or just a link to an example.

It would be nice to have a better to read highlighting color when some text is selected in a ruby file.
The selection is nearly not visible on all of my displays. TextMate (as in Railscasts) uses a much eye friendlier highlighting color. Apart from that it is really nice. Thanks.