diff --git a/guard-lacquer.gemspec b/guard-lacquer.gemspec
index 9633001..30d75e8 100644
--- a/guard-lacquer.gemspec
+++ b/guard-lacquer.gemspec
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.authors     = ["John Bintz"]
   s.email       = ["john@coswellproductions.com"]
   s.homepage    = ""
-  s.summary     = %q{TODO: Write a gem summary}
-  s.description = %q{TODO: Write a gem description}
+  s.summary     = %q{Guard to run Varnish using Lacquer}
+  s.description = %q{Guard to run Varnish using Lacquer}
 
   s.rubyforge_project = "guard-lacquer"
 
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.executables   = `git ls-files -- bin/*`.split("\n").map{ |f| File.basename(f) }
   s.require_paths = ["lib"]
 
-  s.add_runtime_dependency 'lacquer'
+  s.add_runtime_dependency 'lacquer', '>= 0.5.0.beta'
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'guard'
 
   s.add_development_dependency 'rspec', '~> 2.6.0'
diff --git a/images/varnish.png b/images/varnish.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..22d58b9
Binary files /dev/null and b/images/varnish.png differ
diff --git a/lib/guard-lacquer.rb b/lib/guard-lacquer.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 272d349..0000000
--- a/lib/guard-lacquer.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-require 'guard/lacquer'
-
diff --git a/lib/guard/lacquer.rb b/lib/guard/lacquer.rb
index 1978be9..b58a751 100644
--- a/lib/guard/lacquer.rb
+++ b/lib/guard/lacquer.rb
@@ -1,30 +1,44 @@
 require 'guard'
 require 'guard/guard'
-require 'lacquer'
-require 'lacquer/varnishd'
 
-p "made it"
+require 'fileutils'
 
 module Guard
-  class Lacquer < Guard::Guard
+  class Lacquer < Guard
+    autoload :Varnishd, 'guard/lacquer/varnishd'
+
     def initialize(watchers = [], options = {})
       super
 
-      @backend = ::Lacquer::Varnishd.new(
-        :listen => "127.0.0.1:#{options[:port]}",
-        :storage => "file,tmp/cache/varnish.store,32M",
-        :backend => options[:backend],
-        :sbin_path => File.split(`which varnishd`).first,
+      @options = {
+        :port => 3001,
+        :backend => '127.0.0.1:3000',
+        :storage => 'file,tmp/cache/varnish.store,32M',
+        :sbin_path => File.split(`which varnishd`.strip).first,
         :pid_file => 'tmp/pids/varnish.pid'
-      )
+      }.merge(options)
+
+      @backend = Varnishd.new(@options)
+
+      if !File.file?(varnish_erb = 'config/varnish.vcl.erb')
+        UI.info "No config/varnish.vcl.erb found, copying default from Lacquer..."
+
+        FileUtils.mkdir_p File.split(varnish_erb).first
+        FileUtils.cp Gem.find_files('generators/lacquer/templates/varnish.vcl.erb').first, varnish_erb
+      end
     end
 
     def start
+      @backend.stop if @backend.running?
       @backend.start
+
+      notify "Varnish started on port #{@options[:port]}, with backend #{@options[:backend]}."
     end
 
     def stop
-      @backend.start stop
+      @backend.stop
+
+      notify("Until next time...", :title => 'guard-varnish')
     end
 
     def reload
@@ -45,6 +59,11 @@ module Guard
     def run_on_deletion(paths)
       restart
     end
+
+    private
+    def notify(message)
+      Notifier.notify(message, :title => 'guard-lacquer', :image => File.expand_path("../../../images/varnish.png", __FILE__))
+    end
   end
 end
 
diff --git a/lib/guard/lacquer/varnishd.rb b/lib/guard/lacquer/varnishd.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c79776c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/guard/lacquer/varnishd.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+require 'lacquer'
+require 'lacquer/varnishd'
+
+class Guard::Lacquer::Varnishd < ::Lacquer::Varnishd
+  attr_accessor :pid_file
+
+  def self.root_path
+    Pathname.new(Dir.pwd)
+  end
+
+  def self.env
+    ENV['RAILS_ENV'] || 'development'
+  end
+
+  def initialize(options)
+    if options[:backend].split(':').first.empty?
+      options[:backend] = "127.0.0.1#{options[:backend]}"
+    end
+    self.pid_file = self.class.root_path.join(options[:pid_file])
+    options[:listen] = "127.0.0.1:#{options[:port]}"
+
+    super(Hash[options.collect { |k, v| [ k.to_s, v ] }])
+  end
+end
+
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index df6bb5e..66ccdc4 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-require 'guard-lacquer'
+require 'guard/lacquer'
 
 RSpec.configure do |c|
   c.mock_with :mocha