diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 36124502b..74243aab8 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ require 'rake/rdoctask'
 require 'rake/packagetask'
 require 'rake/gempackagetask'
 
+gem 'rspec', '~> 1.2.9'
 begin
   require 'spec/rake/spectask'
 rescue LoadError
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ PKG_HOMEPAGE       = 'http://code.google.com/p/google-api-ruby-client/'
 
 RELEASE_NAME       = "REL #{PKG_VERSION}"
 
+PKG_AUTHOR         = "Bob Aman"
+PKG_AUTHOR_EMAIL   = "bobaman@google.com"
 PKG_SUMMARY        = 'Package Summary'
 PKG_DESCRIPTION    = <<-TEXT
 The Google API Ruby Client makes it trivial to discover and access supported
diff --git a/tasks/gem.rake b/tasks/gem.rake
index ab809e5e7..74f55c195 100644
--- a/tasks/gem.rake
+++ b/tasks/gem.rake
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ namespace :gem do
 
     s.name = PKG_NAME
     s.version = PKG_VERSION
+    s.author = PKG_AUTHOR
+    s.email = PKG_AUTHOR_EMAIL
     s.summary = PKG_SUMMARY
     s.description = PKG_DESCRIPTION