diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fafff2e..07c9152 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
+/.bundle/
+/Gemfile.lock
+/doc/
+/pkg/
+/tmp/
 .DS_Store
 Thumbs.db
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d00633
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+source "https://rubygems.org"
+
+# Specify your gem's dependencies in zzzz.gemspec
+gemspec
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b91b499
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+require "bundler/gem_tasks"
+require "rake/testtask"
diff --git a/php-serialize.gemspec b/php-serialize.gemspec
index 7ba89f7..10519e2 100644
--- a/php-serialize.gemspec
+++ b/php-serialize.gemspec
@@ -16,4 +16,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
 	EOF
 	spec.test_file = 'test.rb'
 	spec.has_rdoc = true
+
+	spec.add_development_dependency "bundler", "~> 1.15"
+	spec.add_development_dependency "rake", "~> 10.0"
 end