Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.

I heard about Nu on the Herding Code podcast and was immediately interested.  Ruby Gems is a great way to distribute open source libraries and manage dependencies.  The .NET scene has been struggling with this issue for quite a while so it’s great to see somebody take on this issue.

Not only does Nu make it super simple to add existing libraries to your project, but it’s also a great resource for finding existing open source projects out there.

I just happened to be building a brand new system so I’ll go through the steps I took to get Nu up and running.

1. Installed Ruby for Windows using the latest Ruby Installer
2. Opened a command prompt and ran the following commands:
   
   c:\gem update --system
   c:\gem update
   c:\gem install activesupport
   c:\gem install nu

3. Next I navigated to a new project folder and typed the following commands to add NHibernate and FluentNHibernate:
   
nu install nhibernate
nu install fluentnhibernate


That’s it – super simple!