diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 3803487..edd1a6e 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -6,37 +6,6 @@ require 'rake/testtask'
 require 'rake/gempackagetask'
 require 'rake/contrib/rubyforgepublisher'
 
-GEM = "mongo"
-GEM_VERSION = '0.1.2'
-SUMMARY = 'Simple pure-Ruby driver for the 10gen Mongo DB'
-DESCRIPTION = 'This is a simple pure-Ruby driver for the 10gen Mongo DB. For more information about Mongo, see http://www.mongodb.org.'
-AUTHOR = 'Jim Menard'
-EMAIL = 'jimm@io.com'
-HOMEPAGE = 'http://www.mongodb.org'
-RUBYFORGE_USER = 'jimm'
- 
-spec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|
-  s.name = GEM
-  s.version = GEM_VERSION
-  s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
-  s.summary = SUMMARY
-  s.description = DESCRIPTION
-  
-  s.require_paths = ['lib']
-  
-  s.files = FileList['bin/*', 'lib/**/*.rb', 'tests/**/*.rb', '[A-Z]*'].to_a
-  
-  s.bindir = 'bin'
-  s.executables  = %w( mongo_console )
-  s.has_rdoc = true
-
-  s.author = AUTHOR
-  s.email = EMAIL
-  s.homepage = HOMEPAGE
-
-  s.rubyforge_project = GEM # GitHub bug, gem isn't being build when this miss
-end
-
 # NOTE: some of the tests assume Mongo is running
 Rake::TestTask.new do |t|
   t.test_files = FileList['tests/test*.rb']
@@ -67,25 +36,14 @@ end
 
 namespace :gem do 
 
-  Rake::GemPackageTask.new(spec) do |pkg|
-    pkg.gem_spec = spec
-  end
-
   desc "Install the gem locally"
   task :install => [:package] do
-    sh %{sudo gem install pkg/#{GEM}-#{GEM_VERSION}}
+    sh %{sudo gem install mongo-ruby-driver.gemspec}
   end
   
   desc "Install the gem locally with ruby 1.9"
   task :'install19' => [:package] do
-    sh %{sudo gem19 install pkg/#{GEM}-#{GEM_VERSION}}
-  end
- 
-  desc "Create a gemspec file"
-  task :make_spec do
-    File.open("#{GEM}.gemspec", "w") do |file|
-      file.puts spec.to_ruby
-    end
+    sh %{sudo gem19 install mongo-ruby-driver.gemspec}
   end
 
 end