diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 117022885..0b51ed32d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 gembin/*
-vendor/gems/*
\ No newline at end of file
+vendor/gems/*
+pkg/*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 001fad791..864349e97 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 require 'rake/testtask'
 
+begin
+  require 'jeweler'
+  Jeweler::Tasks.new do |gemspec|
+    gemspec.name = "hobo"
+    gemspec.summary = "Create virtualized development environments"
+    gemspec.description = "Create virtualized development environments"
+    gemspec.email = "todo@todo.com"
+    gemspec.homepage = "http://github.com/mitchellh/hobo"
+    gemspec.authors = ["Mitchell Hashimoto", "John Bender"]
+  end
+  Jeweler::GemcutterTasks.new
+rescue LoadError
+  puts "Jeweler not available. Install it with: gem install jeweler"
+end
+
 task :default => :test
 
 Rake::TestTask.new do |t|