diff --git a/README b/README
index 34ce202..286d0c8 100755
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
   gem install docsplit
   
   For documentation, usage, and examples, see:
-  http://documentcloud.github.com/docsplit/
+  http://documentcloud.github.io/docsplit/
   
   To suggest a feature or report a bug: 
-  http://github.com/documentcloud/docsplit/issues/
+  https://github.com/documentcloud/docsplit/issues/
 
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index e6c5153..469c90f 100755
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 require 'fileutils'
 require 'rake/testtask'
+require 'bundler/gem_tasks'
 
 desc 'Run all tests'
 task :test do
@@ -7,19 +8,4 @@ task :test do
   Dir['./test/*/**/test_*.rb'].each {|test| require test }
 end
 
-namespace :gem do
-
-  desc 'Build and install the docsplit gem'
-  task :install do
-    sh "gem build docsplit.gemspec"
-    sh "sudo gem install #{Dir['*.gem'].join(' ')} --local --no-ri --no-rdoc"
-  end
-
-  desc 'Uninstall the docsplit gem'
-  task :uninstall do
-    sh "sudo gem uninstall -x docsplit"
-  end
-
-end
-
 task :default => :test
diff --git a/docsplit.gemspec b/docsplit.gemspec
index 97b06de..2cf81d6 100755
--- a/docsplit.gemspec
+++ b/docsplit.gemspec
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
+lib = File.expand_path('../lib', __FILE__)
+$LOAD_PATH.unshift(lib) unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(lib)
+require 'docsplit/version'
+
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name      = 'docsplit'
-  s.version   = '0.7.4'         # Keep version in sync with docsplit.rb
-  s.date      = '2014-02-16'
+  s.version   = Docsplit::VERSION
 
-  s.homepage    = "http://documentcloud.github.com/docsplit/"
+  s.homepage    = 'http://documentcloud.github.io/docsplit/'
   s.summary     = "Break Apart Documents into Images, Text, Pages and PDFs"
   s.description = <<-EOS
     Docsplit is a command-line utility and Ruby library for splitting apart
@@ -22,4 +25,14 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.files = Dir['build/**/*', 'lib/**/*', 'bin/*', 'vendor/**/*',
                 'docsplit.gemspec', 'LICENSE', 'README']
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+
+  s.add_development_dependency 'bundler', '~> 1.5'
+  s.add_development_dependency 'rake'
+
+  s.requirements << 'GraphicsMagick'
+  s.requirements << 'Poppler'
+  s.requirements << 'Ghostscript (optional)'
+  s.requirements << 'Tesseract (optional)'
+  s.requirements << 'pdftk (optional)'
+  s.requirements << 'LibreOffice (optional)'
+end
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 981c34d..c6ff78f 100755
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
     <h1>Doc<sub style="font-size:150%;">&#9889;</sub>split</h1>
 
     <p>
-      <a href="http://github.com/documentcloud/docsplit/">Docsplit</a>
+      <a href="https://github.com/documentcloud/docsplit/">Docsplit</a>
       is a command-line utility and Ruby library for splitting apart
       documents into their component parts: searchable UTF-8 <b>plain text</b>
       via OCR if necessary, page <b>images</b> or thumbnails in any format,
diff --git a/lib/docsplit.rb b/lib/docsplit.rb
index 8d0d41b..4f9cab5 100755
--- a/lib/docsplit.rb
+++ b/lib/docsplit.rb
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 # The Docsplit module delegates to the Java PDF extractors.
 module Docsplit
 
-  VERSION       = '0.7.4' # Keep in sync with gemspec.
-
   ESCAPE        = lambda {|x| Shellwords.shellescape(x) }
 
   ROOT          = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/..')
diff --git a/lib/docsplit/version.rb b/lib/docsplit/version.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c731581
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/docsplit/version.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+module Docsplit
+  VERSION       = '0.7.4'
+end