diff --git a/projects/gem_plugin/Rakefile b/projects/gem_plugin/Rakefile
index 3b218007..b46a24d9 100644
--- a/projects/gem_plugin/Rakefile
+++ b/projects/gem_plugin/Rakefile
@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
+
 require 'echoe'
 
 Echoe.new("gem_plugin") do |p|
   p.author="Zed A. Shaw"
   p.project = "mongrel"
   p.summary = "A plugin system based on rubygems that uses dependencies only"
-  p.test_pattern = "test/test_plugins.rb"
   p.dependencies = ["rake >=0.7"]
+
+  p.include_rakefile = true
+  p.include_gemspec = false
+  p.need_tar_gz = false
+  p.need_tgz = true
+
+  p.test_pattern = "test/test_plugins.rb"
   p.clean_pattern += ["pkg", "lib/*.bundle", "*.gem", ".config"]
   p.rdoc_pattern = ['README', 'LICENSE', 'COPYING', 'lib/**/*.rb', 'doc/**/*.rdoc']
 end