diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d87d4be..7d6d41a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ _yardoc
 coverage
 doc/
 lib/bundler/man
+lib/v8/*.bundle
+lib/v8/*.so
 pkg
 rdoc
 spec/reports
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..34ac374
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "spec/redjs"]
+	path = spec/redjs
+	url = git@github.com:cowboyd/redjs.git
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index f57ae68..fec90fa 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -1,2 +1,23 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env rake
 require "bundler/gem_tasks"
+
+require "rake/extensiontask"
+
+# desc "remove all generated artifacts except built v8 objects"
+task :clean do
+  sh "rm -rf lib/v8/vm.bundle lib/v8/vm.so"
+  sh "rm -rf pkg"
+end
+
+Rake::ExtensionTask.new("vm", eval(File.read("therubyracer.gemspec"))) do |ext|
+  ext.lib_dir = "lib/v8"
+  ext.source_pattern = "*.{cc,h}"
+end
+
+
+require "rspec/core/rake_task"
+RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec)
+task :default => :spec
+
+
+
diff --git a/ext/vm/extconf.rb b/ext/vm/extconf.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d273d37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/vm/extconf.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+require 'mkmf'
+begin
+  require 'libv8'
+rescue LoadError
+  require 'rubygems'
+  require 'libv8'
+end
+
+have_library('objc') if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/
+
+#we have to manually prepend the libv8 include path to INCFLAGS
+#since find_header() does not actually work as advertized.
+#see https://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer/issues/91
+$INCFLAGS.insert 0, "-I#{Libv8.include_path} "
+
+$CPPFLAGS += " -Wall" unless $CPPFLAGS.split.include? "-Wall"
+$CPPFLAGS += " -g" unless $CPPFLAGS.split.include? "-g"
+$CPPFLAGS += " -rdynamic" unless $CPPFLAGS.split.include? "-rdynamic"
+
+$DEFLIBPATH.unshift(Libv8.library_path)
+$LIBS << ' -lv8 -lpthread'
+
+CONFIG['LDSHARED'] = '$(CXX) -shared' unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/
+
+create_makefile('vm')
diff --git a/ext/vm/rr.h b/ext/vm/rr.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87ccb86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/vm/rr.h
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <v8.h>
+
+namespace rr {
+
+/**
+* Represents an outgoing reference to
+*/
+class Stub {
+  Stub();
+};
+
+class Scion {
+  Scion();
+};
+}
diff --git a/ext/vm/scion.cc b/ext/vm/scion.cc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b8a0f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/vm/scion.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#include "rr.h"
+
+rr::Scion::Scion() {
+
+};
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ext/vm/stub.cc b/ext/vm/stub.cc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee68bc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/vm/stub.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#include "rr.h"
+
+rr::Stub::Stub() {
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ext/vm/vm.cc b/ext/vm/vm.cc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc02c92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/vm/vm.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+
+#include "rr.h"
+
+extern "C" {
+  void Init_vm();
+}
+
+extern "C" {
+  void Init_vm() {
+    v8::Locker locker;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/lib/v8.rb b/lib/v8.rb
index 049c5b1..4f9d7ad 100644
--- a/lib/v8.rb
+++ b/lib/v8.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 require "v8/version"
 
-module V8
-
-end
+require 'v8/vm'
+require 'v8/context'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/v8/context.rb b/lib/v8/context.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9591223
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/v8/context.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+module V8
+  class Context
+    def initialize
+      @native = CC::Context::New()
+    end
+    def eval(*args)
+
+    end
+  end
+end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spec/redjs b/spec/redjs
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..1ebcd2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/redjs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 1ebcd2a5766cec58f93d80308682ff7858320d3e
diff --git a/spec/redjs_helper.rb b/spec/redjs_helper.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..250cc00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/redjs_helper.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+require 'spec_helper'
+
+include V8
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..217842d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+require 'v8'
+
+def rputs(msg)
+  puts "<pre>#{ERB::Util.h(msg)}</pre>"
+  $stdout.flush
+end
diff --git a/therubyracer.gemspec b/therubyracer.gemspec
index b7b8e42..88d2881 100644
--- a/therubyracer.gemspec
+++ b/therubyracer.gemspec
@@ -14,4 +14,10 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
   gem.name          = "therubyracer"
   gem.require_paths = ["lib"]
   gem.version       = V8::VERSION
+
+  gem.add_dependency "libv8", "~> 3.7.0"
+
+  gem.add_development_dependency "rake"
+  gem.add_development_dependency "rake-compiler"
+  gem.add_development_dependency "rspec", "~> 2.0"
 end