diff --git a/lib/rails_sequel.rb b/lib/rails_sequel.rb
index 1e0d998..84314aa 100644
--- a/lib/rails_sequel.rb
+++ b/lib/rails_sequel.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-gem 'sequel'
+# gem 'sequel'
 require 'sequel'
 
 require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/rails_sequel/rails_sequel')
diff --git a/lib/rails_sequel/rails_sequel.rb b/lib/rails_sequel/rails_sequel.rb
index 8d18ac5..d1c2f1a 100644
--- a/lib/rails_sequel/rails_sequel.rb
+++ b/lib/rails_sequel/rails_sequel.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@ module SequelConnection
     
     # Connects to database using constructed Database Connection URI
     def self.connect
-      Sequel.connect uri, :loggers => [Rails.logger]
+      options = self.prepare_options
+      connection = Sequel.connect(options)
+      if options[:adapter] == 'mysql'
+        connection.execute("SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL=0")
+      end
     end
     
     # Returns loaded database.yml configuration for current environment
@@ -14,14 +18,29 @@ def self.config
     end
     
     # Constructs Database Connection URI
-    def self.uri
-      uri = config[:adapter] << "://"
-      uri << config[:username] if config[:username]
-      uri << ':' << config[:password] if config[:password]
-      uri << '@' if config[:username] || config[:password]
-      uri << ':' << config[:port] if config[:port]
-      uri << (config[:host] || 'localhost')
-      uri << '/' << config[:database]
+    def self.prepare_options
+      options = {}
+
+      # Use SQLite by default
+      options[:adapter] = (config[:adapter] || "sqlite")
+      # Use localhost as default host
+      options[:host] = (config[:host] || "localhost")
+      # Default user is an empty string. Both username and user keys are supported.
+      options[:user] = (config[:username] || config[:user] || "")
+
+      options[:password] = config[:password] || ""
+
+      # Both encoding and charset options are supported, default is utf8
+      options[:encoding] = (config[:encoding] || config[:charset] || "utf8")
+      # Default database is hey_dude_configure_your_database
+      options[:database] = config[:database] || "hey_dude_configure_your_database"
+      # MSSQL support
+      options[:db_type] = config[:db_type] if config[:db_type]
+      options[:socket] = config[:socket] if config[:socket]
+      options[:charset] = config[:charset] if config[:charset]
+      options[:encoding] = config[:encoding] if config[:encoding]
+      options[:loggers] = [Rails.logger]
+      options
     end
   end
 end
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diff --git a/lib/rails_sequel/version.rb b/lib/rails_sequel/version.rb
index 94783a9..deecfea 100644
--- a/lib/rails_sequel/version.rb
+++ b/lib/rails_sequel/version.rb
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ module Rails
   module SequelConnection
     module Version
       MAJOR = 0
-      MINOR = 0
-      TINY  = 2
+      MINOR = 1
+      TINY  = 0
 
       STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join('.')
     end
diff --git a/rails_sequel.gemspec b/rails_sequel.gemspec
index 8433858..4d5828f 100644
--- a/rails_sequel.gemspec
+++ b/rails_sequel.gemspec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/lib/rails_sequel/version')
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name    = 'rails_sequel'
-  s.version = "0.1.0"
+  s.version = "0.1.2"
   s.date    = '2009-01-14'
   
   s.summary = "Sequel plugin for Ruby on Rails"
diff --git a/tasks/sequel.rake b/tasks/sequel.rake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54b0e12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/sequel.rake
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Usage:
+#
+# rake sequel:migrate
+# rake sequel:migrate VERSION=0
+# rake sequel:migrate VERSION=3
+#
+desc 'Sequel migration'
+namespace :sequel do
+  task :migrate => :environment do
+    path = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'db', 'migrate')
+    if ENV['VERSION']
+      Sequel::Migrator.apply(Sequel::Model.db, path, ENV['VERSION'].to_i)
+    else
+      Sequel::Migrator.apply(Sequel::Model.db, path)
+    end
+  end
+end
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