diff --git a/delayed_job.gemspec b/delayed_job.gemspec
index 8fee076d7..f6665c576 100644
--- a/delayed_job.gemspec
+++ b/delayed_job.gemspec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ This gem is collectiveidea's fork (http://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job)
   s.require_paths     = ["lib"]
   s.test_files        = Dir.glob('spec/**/*')
 
-  s.add_runtime_dependency      'daemons'
+  s.add_runtime_dependency      'daemons',        '1.0.10'
   s.add_runtime_dependency      'activesupport',  '~> 3.0'
 
   s.add_development_dependency  'activerecord',   '~> 3.0'