diff --git a/README b/README
index 428987c..f11de08 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -44,6 +44,24 @@ restclient resource_url [username] [password]
 
 or require the gem from within your ~/.rush/env.rb and have instant access to it from within your rush (http://rush.heroku.com) sessions.
 
+You can also create a ~/.restclient file and store named sessions as:
+
+name:
+  :url: http://mydomain.com
+  :username: myusername
+  :password: supersecret
+
+anothername:
+  ...
+  
+The use like:
+
+mycpu:~ adamwiggins$ restclient anothername
+>>r
+=> #<RestClient::Resource:0x557bac @password="supersecret", @user="myusername", @url="http://mydomain.com">
+>>get '/'
+=> Hey!
+
 == Meta
 
 Written by Adam Wiggins (adam at heroku dot com)
diff --git a/bin/restclient b/bin/restclient
index 2cf02e4..565f3e5 100755
--- a/bin/restclient
+++ b/bin/restclient
@@ -3,19 +3,29 @@
 $:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../lib"
 require 'rest_client'
 
+require "yaml"
+
 def usage(why = nil)
   puts "failed for reason: #{why}" if why
-	puts "usage: restclient url [username] [password]"
+	puts "usage: restclient url|name [username] [password]"
 	exit(1)
 end
 
 @url = ARGV.shift || 'http://localhost:4567'
 
+config = YAML.load(File.read(ENV['HOME'] + "/.restclient")) rescue {}
+
+@url, @username, @password = if c = config[@url]
+  [c[:url], c[:username], c[:password]]
+else
+  [@url, *ARGV]
+end
+
 usage("invalid url '#{@url}") unless @url =~ /^https?/
 usage("to few args") unless ARGV.size < 3
 
 def r
-	@r ||= RestClient::Resource.new(@url, *ARGV)
+	@r ||= RestClient::Resource.new(@url, @username, @password)
 end
 
 r # force rc to load