diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index c3daeecf3..9eb397ddd 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -2,6 +2,30 @@ require 'rake'
 require 'rake/rdoctask'
 require 'spec/rake/spectask'
 
+begin
+  GEM = "formtastic"
+  AUTHOR = "Justin French"
+  EMAIL = "justin@indent.com.au"
+  SUMMARY = "A Rails form builder plugin/gem with semantically rich and accessible markup"
+  HOMEPAGE = "http://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic/tree/master"
+  
+  require 'jeweler'
+  Jeweler::Tasks.new do |s|
+    s.name = GEM
+    s.summary = SUMMARY
+    s.email = EMAIL
+    s.homepage = HOMEPAGE
+    s.description = SUMMARY
+    s.author = AUTHOR
+    
+    s.require_path = 'lib'
+    s.autorequire = GEM
+    s.files = %w(MIT-LICENSE README.textile Rakefile) + Dir.glob("{rails,lib,spec}/**/*")
+  end
+rescue LoadError
+  puts "Jeweler, or one of its dependencies, is not available. Install it with: sudo gem install technicalpickles-jeweler -s http://gems.github.com"
+end
+
 desc 'Default: run unit specs.'
 task :default => :spec
 
diff --git a/VERSION.yml b/VERSION.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0066fa4ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/VERSION.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+--- 
+:major: 0
+:minor: 1
+:patch: 0
diff --git a/formtastic.gemspec b/formtastic.gemspec
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4a0d36920
--- /dev/null
+++ b/formtastic.gemspec
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
+Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+  s.name = %q{formtastic}
+  s.version = "0.1.1"
+
+  s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
+  s.authors = ["Justin French"]
+  s.autorequire = %q{formtastic}
+  s.date = %q{2009-03-08}
+  s.description = %q{A Rails form builder plugin/gem with semantically rich and accessible markup}
+  s.email = %q{justin@indent.com.au}
+  s.extra_rdoc_files = ["README.textile"]
+  s.files = ["MIT-LICENSE", "README.textile", "Rakefile", "rails/init.rb", "lib/formtastic.rb", "lib/justin_french", "lib/justin_french/formtastic.rb", "lib/locale", "lib/locale/en.yml", "spec/formtastic_spec.rb", "spec/test_helper.rb"]
+  s.has_rdoc = true
+  s.homepage = %q{http://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic/tree/master}
+  s.rdoc_options = ["--inline-source", "--charset=UTF-8"]
+  s.require_paths = ["lib"]
+  s.rubygems_version = %q{1.3.1}
+  s.summary = %q{A Rails form builder plugin/gem with semantically rich and accessible markup}
+
+  if s.respond_to? :specification_version then
+    current_version = Gem::Specification::CURRENT_SPECIFICATION_VERSION
+    s.specification_version = 2
+
+    if Gem::Version.new(Gem::RubyGemsVersion) >= Gem::Version.new('1.2.0') then
+    else
+    end
+  else
+  end
+end