diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
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index 0000000..897eb3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+require 'rake'
+require 'rake/testtask'
+require 'rake/rdoctask'
+require 'rake/packagetask'
+require 'rake/gempackagetask'
+require 'rake/contrib/rubyforgepublisher'
+
+require "./lib/switchtower/ext/version"
+
+PKG_NAME      = "switchtower-ext"
+PKG_BUILD     = ENV['PKG_BUILD'] ? '.' + ENV['PKG_BUILD'] : ''
+PKG_VERSION   = SwitchTower::Ext::Version::STRING + PKG_BUILD
+PKG_FILE_NAME = "#{PKG_NAME}-#{PKG_VERSION}"
+
+GEM_SPEC = eval(File.read("#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/#{PKG_NAME}.gemspec"))
+
+Rake::GemPackageTask.new(GEM_SPEC) do |p|
+  p.gem_spec = GEM_SPEC
+  p.need_tar = true
+  p.need_zip = true
+end
+
+desc "Build the RDoc API documentation"
+Rake::RDocTask.new do |rdoc|
+  rdoc.rdoc_dir = "doc"
+  rdoc.title    = "SwitchTower Extensions -- A collection of tasks and methods for switchtower"
+  rdoc.options << '--line-numbers --inline-source --main README'
+  rdoc.rdoc_files.include 'README'
+  rdoc.rdoc_files.include 'lib/**/*.rb'
+  rdoc.template = "jamis"
+end
diff --git a/lib/switchtower/ext/version.rb b/lib/switchtower/ext/version.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c75ba8
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+++ b/lib/switchtower/ext/version.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+module SwitchTower
+  module Ext
+    module Version #:nodoc:
+      MAJOR = 1
+      MINOR = 0
+      TINY  = 0
+
+      STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join(".")
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/switchtower-ext.gemspec b/switchtower-ext.gemspec
index 0deeb5f..ce103b1 100644
--- a/switchtower-ext.gemspec
+++ b/switchtower-ext.gemspec
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
+require './lib/switchtower/ext/version'
+
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.name = 'switchtower-ext'
-  s.version = "0.0.1"
+  s.version = PKG_VERSION
   s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
   s.summary = <<-DESC.strip.gsub(/\n/, " ")
-    SwitchTower Extensions are a set of useful task libraries and methods that
+    SwitchTower Extensions is a set of useful task libraries and methods that
     other developers may reference in their own recipe files.
   DESC