diff --git a/projects/gem_plugin/Rakefile b/projects/gem_plugin/Rakefile
index 0dbfcf29..528f2951 100644
--- a/projects/gem_plugin/Rakefile
+++ b/projects/gem_plugin/Rakefile
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ setup_gem(name, version) do |spec|
   spec.summary = "A plugin system based only on rubygems that uses dependencies only"
   spec.description = spec.summary
   spec.test_file = "test/test_plugins.rb"
-  scripts=[]
+  spec.files += Dir.glob("resources/**/*")
+  spec.executables=["gpgen"]
+  spec.add_dependency("rake", ">= 0.7")
 end
 
 task :install => [:test, :package] do
diff --git a/projects/gem_plugin/bin/gpgen b/projects/gem_plugin/bin/gpgen
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..db77bfdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/gem_plugin/bin/gpgen
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+require 'erb'
+require 'fileutils'
+include FileUtils
+
+if ARGV.length != 1
+  STDERR.puts "ERROR: You must give a name for your plugin and directory."
+  STDERR.puts "usage:  gpgen name"
+  STDERR.puts "example:  gpgen mygemplugin"
+  exit 1
+end
+
+# setup the required binding variables for erb processing later
+project = ARGV.shift
+gem_plugin_base = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), ".."))
+resources = File.join(gem_plugin_base, "resources")
+gem_plugin_version = gem_plugin_base[gem_plugin_base.rindex("-")+1 .. -1]
+
+
+# make the dir if it don't exist
+if not File.exist? project
+  puts "Creating directory #{project}"
+  mkdir project
+else
+  puts "Directory #{project} exists, skipping."
+end 
+
+
+# go through all the resource files, erb them, and write them verbatim to output
+# do not overwrite if exists already
+
+Dir.glob("#{resources}/**/*") do |infile|
+  outfile = File.join(project, infile[resources.length .. -1])
+  if File.exist? outfile
+    puts "File #{outfile} exists, skipping."
+  else
+    if File.directory? infile
+      puts "Creating directory #{outfile}"
+      mkdir_p outfile
+    elsif File.file? infile
+      puts "Creating file #{outfile}"
+      open(infile) do |content|
+        template = ERB.new(content.read)
+        open(outfile,"w") {|f| f.write(template.result(binding)) }
+      end
+    else
+      puts "!!! Resources contains something not a file or directory."
+      puts "Skipping #{infile}."
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+# Finally, move the base init.rb to the right dir 
+init_file = File.join(project,"lib",project)
+if File.exist? init_file
+  puts "File init.rb already exists, skipping."
+  puts "WARNING:  There might be a junk '#{project}/lib/project/init.rb' file you can delete."
+else
+  puts "Creating proper '#{project}/lib/#{project}/init.rb' file"
+  mv File.join(project,"lib","project"), init_file
+end
diff --git a/projects/gem_plugin/resources/COPYING b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/COPYING
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bff74f4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/COPYING
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+No copying restrictions/license given.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/projects/gem_plugin/resources/LICENSE b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5ac4caba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+No license given.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/projects/gem_plugin/resources/README b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/README
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6d354aae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/README
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+== <%= project.capitalize %> GemPlugin
+
+You should document your project here.
+
+
diff --git a/projects/gem_plugin/resources/Rakefile b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/Rakefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a9d6dac9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/Rakefile
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+require 'rake'
+require 'rake/testtask'
+require 'rake/clean'
+require 'rake/gempackagetask'
+require 'rake/rdoctask'
+require 'tools/rakehelp'
+require 'fileutils'
+include FileUtils
+
+setup_tests
+setup_clean ["pkg", "lib/*.bundle", "*.gem", ".config"]
+
+setup_rdoc ['README', 'LICENSE', 'COPYING', 'lib/**/*.rb', 'doc/**/*.rdoc']
+
+desc "Does a full compile, test run"
+task :default => [:test, :package]
+
+version="0.1"
+name="<%= project %>"
+
+setup_gem(name, version) do |spec|
+  spec.summary = "The <%= project %> GemPlugin"
+  spec.description = spec.summary
+  spec.author="Nobody"
+  spec.add_dependency('gem_plugin', '>= <%= gem_plugin_version %>')
+  spec.files += Dir.glob("resources/**/*")
+end
+
+
+task :install => [:test, :package] do
+  sh %{sudo gem install pkg/#{name}-#{version}.gem}
+end
+
+task :uninstall => [:clean] do
+  sh %{sudo gem uninstall #{name}}
+end
+
diff --git a/projects/gem_plugin/resources/lib/project/init.rb b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/lib/project/init.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7d6544a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/lib/project/init.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+require 'gem_plugin'
+
+# give this class the name you want for your command <%= project %>
+class ChangeME < GemPlugin::Plugin "/somecategory"
+end
+
diff --git a/projects/gem_plugin/resources/resources/defaults.yaml b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/resources/defaults.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..10d2a473
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/resources/defaults.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+--- 
+:debug: false
diff --git a/projects/gem_plugin/resources/tools/rakehelp.rb b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/tools/rakehelp.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d8505a25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/gem_plugin/resources/tools/rakehelp.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+
+def make(makedir)
+    Dir.chdir(makedir) do
+        sh(PLATFORM =~ /win32/ ? 'nmake' : 'make')
+    end
+end
+
+
+def extconf(dir)
+    Dir.chdir(dir) do ruby "extconf.rb" end
+end
+
+
+def setup_tests
+    Rake::TestTask.new do |t|
+        t.libs << "test"
+        t.test_files = FileList['test/test*.rb']
+        t.verbose = true
+    end
+end
+
+
+def setup_clean otherfiles
+    files = ['build/*', '**/*.o', '**/*.so', '**/*.a', 'lib/*-*', '**/*.log'] + otherfiles
+    CLEAN.include(files)
+end
+
+
+def setup_rdoc files
+    Rake::RDocTask.new do |rdoc|
+        rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'doc/rdoc'
+        rdoc.options << '--line-numbers'
+        rdoc.rdoc_files.add(files)
+    end
+end
+
+
+def setup_extension(dir, extension)
+    ext = "ext/#{dir}"
+    ext_so = "#{ext}/#{extension}.#{Config::CONFIG['DLEXT']}"
+    ext_files = FileList[
+    "#{ext}/*.c",
+    "#{ext}/*.h",
+    "#{ext}/extconf.rb",
+    "#{ext}/Makefile",
+    "lib"
+    ] 
+    
+    task "lib" do
+        directory "lib"
+    end
+
+    desc "Builds just the #{extension} extension"
+    task extension.to_sym => ["#{ext}/Makefile", ext_so ]
+
+    file "#{ext}/Makefile" => ["#{ext}/extconf.rb"] do
+        extconf "#{ext}"
+    end
+
+    file ext_so => ext_files do
+        make "#{ext}"
+        cp ext_so, "lib"
+    end
+end
+
+
+def base_gem_spec(pkg_name, pkg_version)
+  pkg_version = pkg_version
+  pkg_name    = pkg_name
+  pkg_file_name = "#{pkg_name}-#{pkg_version}"
+  Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+    s.name = pkg_name
+    s.version = pkg_version
+    s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
+    s.has_rdoc = true
+    s.extra_rdoc_files = [ "README" ]
+    
+    s.files = %w(COPYING LICENSE README Rakefile) +
+      Dir.glob("{bin,doc/rdoc,test,lib}/**/*") + 
+      Dir.glob("ext/**/*.{h,c,rb}") +
+      Dir.glob("examples/**/*.rb") +
+      Dir.glob("tools/*.rb")
+    
+    s.require_path = "lib"
+    s.extensions = FileList["ext/**/extconf.rb"].to_a
+    s.bindir = "bin"
+  end
+end
+
+def setup_gem(pkg_name, pkg_version)
+  spec = base_gem_spec(pkg_name, pkg_version)
+  yield spec if block_given?
+    
+  Rake::GemPackageTask.new(spec) do |p|
+    p.gem_spec = spec
+    p.need_tar = true
+  end
+end
+
+def setup_win32_gem(pkg_name, pkg_version)
+  spec = base_gem_spec(pkg_name, pkg_version)
+  yield spec if block_given?
+
+  Gem::Builder.new(spec).build
+end