diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index d3edbf4..561ad77 100755
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -7,3 +7,29 @@ RedminePluginSupport::Base.setup do |plugin|
   plugin.project_name = 'redmine_rate'
   plugin.default_task = [:spec, :features]
 end
+
+begin
+  require 'jeweler'
+  Jeweler::Tasks.new do |s|
+    s.name = "redmine_rate"
+    s.summary = "A Rate plugin for Redmine to store billing rate for user."
+    s.email = "edavis@littlestreamsoftware.com"
+    s.homepage = "https://projects.littlestreamsoftware.com/projects/redmine-timesheet"
+    s.description = "The Rate plugin stores billing rates for Users.  It also provides an API that can be used to find the rate for a Member of a Project at a specific date."
+    s.authors = ["Eric Davis"]
+    s.rubyforge_project = "redmine_rate" # TODO
+    s.files =  FileList[
+                        "[A-Z]*",
+                        "init.rb",
+                        "rails/init.rb",
+                        "{bin,generators,lib,test,app,assets,config,lang}/**/*",
+                        'lib/jeweler/templates/.gitignore'
+                       ]
+  end
+  Jeweler::GemcutterTasks.new
+  Jeweler::RubyforgeTasks.new do |rubyforge|
+    rubyforge.doc_task = "rdoc"
+  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
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c6aa7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.1.0
\ No newline at end of file