diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92ac8c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+source 'https://rubygems.org'
+
+# Specify your gem's dependencies in rmate.gemspec
+gemspec
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
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index 0000000..f57ae68
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+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env rake
+require "bundler/gem_tasks"
diff --git a/bin/rmate b/bin/rmate
index f7e9855..13aa9a7 100755
--- a/bin/rmate
+++ b/bin/rmate
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ require 'socket'
 require 'tempfile'
 require 'yaml'
 require 'fileutils'
+require 'rmate'
 
-VERSION_STRING = 'rmate version 1.5 (2012-09-19)'
+VERSION_STRING = "rmate version #{Rmate::VERSION} (#{Rmate::DATE})"
 
 class Settings
   attr_accessor :host, :port, :wait, :force, :verbose, :lines, :names, :types
diff --git a/lib/rmate.rb b/lib/rmate.rb
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index 0000000..f087e4d
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+++ b/lib/rmate.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+require "rmate/version"
+
+module Rmate
+  # Your code goes here...
+end
diff --git a/lib/rmate/version.rb b/lib/rmate/version.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ebdda4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/rmate/version.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+module Rmate
+  VERSION = "1.5.4"
+  DATE    = "2013-03-16"
+end
diff --git a/rmate.gemspec b/rmate.gemspec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..95938e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rmate.gemspec
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+require File.expand_path('../lib/rmate/version', __FILE__)
+
+Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
+  gem.name          = 'rmate'
+  gem.version       = Rmate::VERSION
+  gem.date          = Rmate::DATE
+  gem.description   = %q{Remote TextMate}
+  gem.summary       = %q{Edit files from anywhere in TextMate 2 on your local Mac.}
+  gem.email         = ['rmate@textmate.org']
+  gem.homepage      = 'https://github.com/textmate/rmate/'
+
+  gem.executables   = `git ls-files -- bin/*`.split("\n").map{ |f| File.basename(f) }
+  gem.files         = `git ls-files`.split("\n")
+  gem.authors       = `git log --pretty="format:%an"|sort -u`.split("\n")
+  gem.require_paths = ['lib']
+end