diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 92aa8ca..0e49c05 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 .vagrant/
+results.xml
 .ruby-version
 Gemfile.lock
 Gemfile.local
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index e7fe5ff..d12abf5 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 source ENV['GEM_SOURCE'] || 'https://rubygems.org'
 
-gem 'json', '>= 1.8'
 gem 'puma', '>= 3.6.0'
 # Rack 2.x requires ruby 2.2 or above.
 # As VMPooler should work in older jruby, we need to be Ruby 1.9.3 compatible.
@@ -12,7 +11,7 @@ gem 'net-ldap', '>= 0.16.1'
 gem 'statsd-ruby', '>= 1.3.0', :require => 'statsd'
 gem 'connection_pool', '>= 2.2.1'
 gem 'nokogiri', '>= 1.8.2'
-
+gem 'vmpooler', path: './'
 # Pin gems against Ruby version
 # Note we can't use platform restrictions easily so use
 # lowest version range any platform
@@ -26,6 +25,10 @@ else
   gem 'redis', '>= 3.2'
 end
 
+group :development do
+  gem 'pry'
+end
+
 # Test deps
 group :test do
   gem 'mock_redis', '>= 0.17.0'
diff --git a/lib/vmpooler/version.rb b/lib/vmpooler/version.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f66747
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/vmpooler/version.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+
+module Vmpooler
+  VERSION = '0.0.1'.freeze
+end
diff --git a/vmpooler.gemspec b/vmpooler.gemspec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..409b558
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vmpooler.gemspec
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+lib = File.expand_path('../lib', __FILE__)
+$LOAD_PATH.unshift(lib) unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(lib)
+require 'vmpooler/version'
+
+Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
+  spec.name          = 'vmpooler'
+  spec.version       = Vmpooler::VERSION
+  spec.authors       = ['Puppet']
+  spec.email         = ['support@puppet.com']
+
+  spec.summary       = 'vmpooler provides configurable pools of instantly-available (running) virtual machines'
+  spec.description   = 'vmpooler provides configurable pools of instantly-available (running) virtual machines'
+  spec.homepage      = 'https://github.com/puppetlabs/vmpooler'
+  spec.license       = 'MIT'
+
+  spec.files         = `git ls-files -z`.split("\x0").reject do |f|
+    f.match(%r{^(test|spec|features)/})
+  end
+  spec.bindir        = 'exe'
+  spec.executables   = spec.files.grep(%r{^exe/}) { |f| File.basename(f) }
+  spec.require_paths = ['lib']
+  spec.add_dependency 'puma', '>= 3.6.0'
+  spec.add_dependency 'rack', '~> 1.6'
+  spec.add_dependency 'rake', '>= 10.4'
+  spec.add_dependency 'rbvmomi', '>= 1.8'
+  spec.add_dependency 'sinatra', '>= 1.4'
+  spec.add_dependency 'net-ldap', '>= 0.16.1'
+  spec.add_dependency 'statsd-ruby', '>= 1.3.0'
+  spec.add_dependency 'connection_pool', '>= 2.2.1'
+  spec.add_dependency 'nokogiri', '>= 1.8.2'
+  # we should lock ruby support down to 2.2.2+ and update redis version 3.2
+  spec.add_dependency 'redis', '>= 3.0'
+
+end