diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index ccb9012..c48c3d1 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 source 'https://rubygems.org'
-gem 'rake'
-gem 'gem_publisher'
-gem 'archive-tar-minitar'
+gemspec
+gem "logstash", :github => "elasticsearch/logstash", :branch => "1.5"
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index da6b220..4f4b858 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ task :default do
   system("rake -T")
 end
 
+require "logstash/devutils/rake"
diff --git a/logstash-input-file.gemspec b/logstash-input-file.gemspec
index 87c1c0c..0fc395c 100644
--- a/logstash-input-file.gemspec
+++ b/logstash-input-file.gemspec
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.name            = 'logstash-input-file'
-  s.version         = '0.1.1'
+  s.version         = '0.1.2'
   s.licenses        = ['Apache License (2.0)']
   s.summary         = "Stream events from files."
-  s.description     = "Stream events from files."
+  s.description     = "This gem is a logstash plugin required to be installed on top of the Logstash core pipeline using $LS_HOME/bin/plugin install gemname. This gem is not a stand-alone program"
   s.authors         = ["Elasticsearch"]
   s.email           = 'richard.pijnenburg@elasticsearch.com'
-  s.homepage        = "http://logstash.net/"
+  s.homepage        = "http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/logstash/current/index.html"
   s.require_paths = ["lib"]
 
   # Files
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.test_files = s.files.grep(%r{^(test|spec|features)/})
 
   # Special flag to let us know this is actually a logstash plugin
-  s.metadata = { "logstash_plugin" => "true", "group" => "input" }
+  s.metadata = { "logstash_plugin" => "true", "logstash_group" => "input" }
 
   # Gem dependencies
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'logstash', '>= 1.4.0', '< 2.0.0'
@@ -26,5 +26,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'addressable'
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'filewatch', ['0.5.1']
 
+  s.add_development_dependency 'logstash-devutils'
 end
 
diff --git a/rakelib/publish.rake b/rakelib/publish.rake
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ef58c0..0000000
--- a/rakelib/publish.rake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-require "gem_publisher"
-
-desc "Publish gem to RubyGems.org"
-task :publish_gem do |t|
-  gem_file = Dir.glob(File.expand_path('../*.gemspec',File.dirname(__FILE__))).first
-  gem = GemPublisher.publish_if_updated(gem_file, :rubygems)
-  puts "Published #{gem}" if gem
-end
-
diff --git a/rakelib/vendor.rake b/rakelib/vendor.rake
deleted file mode 100644
index 2135119..0000000
--- a/rakelib/vendor.rake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,169 +0,0 @@
-require "net/http"
-require "uri"
-require "digest/sha1"
-
-def vendor(*args)
-  return File.join("vendor", *args)
-end
-
-directory "vendor/" => ["vendor"] do |task, args|
-  mkdir task.name
-end
-
-def fetch(url, sha1, output)
-
-  puts "Downloading #{url}"
-  actual_sha1 = download(url, output)
-
-  if actual_sha1 != sha1
-    fail "SHA1 does not match (expected '#{sha1}' but got '#{actual_sha1}')"
-  end
-end # def fetch
-
-def file_fetch(url, sha1)
-  filename = File.basename( URI(url).path )
-  output = "vendor/#{filename}"
-  task output => [ "vendor/" ] do
-    begin
-      actual_sha1 = file_sha1(output)
-      if actual_sha1 != sha1
-        fetch(url, sha1, output)
-      end
-    rescue Errno::ENOENT
-      fetch(url, sha1, output)
-    end
-  end.invoke
-
-  return output
-end
-
-def file_sha1(path)
-  digest = Digest::SHA1.new
-  fd = File.new(path, "r")
-  while true
-    begin
-      digest << fd.sysread(16384)
-    rescue EOFError
-      break
-    end
-  end
-  return digest.hexdigest
-ensure
-  fd.close if fd
-end
-
-def download(url, output)
-  uri = URI(url)
-  digest = Digest::SHA1.new
-  tmp = "#{output}.tmp"
-  Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => (uri.scheme == "https")) do |http|
-    request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.path)
-    http.request(request) do |response|
-      fail "HTTP fetch failed for #{url}. #{response}" if [200, 301].include?(response.code)
-      size = (response["content-length"].to_i || -1).to_f
-      count = 0
-      File.open(tmp, "w") do |fd|
-        response.read_body do |chunk|
-          fd.write(chunk)
-          digest << chunk
-          if size > 0 && $stdout.tty?
-            count += chunk.bytesize
-            $stdout.write(sprintf("\r%0.2f%%", count/size * 100))
-          end
-        end
-      end
-      $stdout.write("\r      \r") if $stdout.tty?
-    end
-  end
-
-  File.rename(tmp, output)
-
-  return digest.hexdigest
-rescue SocketError => e
-  puts "Failure while downloading #{url}: #{e}"
-  raise
-ensure
-  File.unlink(tmp) if File.exist?(tmp)
-end # def download
-
-def untar(tarball, &block)
-  require "archive/tar/minitar"
-  tgz = Zlib::GzipReader.new(File.open(tarball))
-  # Pull out typesdb
-  tar = Archive::Tar::Minitar::Input.open(tgz)
-  tar.each do |entry|
-    path = block.call(entry)
-    next if path.nil?
-    parent = File.dirname(path)
-    
-    mkdir_p parent unless File.directory?(parent)
-
-    # Skip this file if the output file is the same size
-    if entry.directory?
-      mkdir path unless File.directory?(path)
-    else
-      entry_mode = entry.instance_eval { @mode } & 0777
-      if File.exists?(path)
-        stat = File.stat(path)
-        # TODO(sissel): Submit a patch to archive-tar-minitar upstream to
-        # expose headers in the entry.
-        entry_size = entry.instance_eval { @size }
-        # If file sizes are same, skip writing.
-        next if stat.size == entry_size && (stat.mode & 0777) == entry_mode
-      end
-      puts "Extracting #{entry.full_name} from #{tarball} #{entry_mode.to_s(8)}"
-      File.open(path, "w") do |fd|
-        # eof? check lets us skip empty files. Necessary because the API provided by
-        # Archive::Tar::Minitar::Reader::EntryStream only mostly acts like an
-        # IO object. Something about empty files in this EntryStream causes
-        # IO.copy_stream to throw "can't convert nil into String" on JRuby
-        # TODO(sissel): File a bug about this.
-        while !entry.eof?
-          chunk = entry.read(16384)
-          fd.write(chunk)
-        end
-          #IO.copy_stream(entry, fd)
-      end
-      File.chmod(entry_mode, path)
-    end
-  end
-  tar.close
-  File.unlink(tarball) if File.file?(tarball)
-end # def untar
-
-def ungz(file)
-
-  outpath = file.gsub('.gz', '')
-  tgz = Zlib::GzipReader.new(File.open(file))
-  begin
-    File.open(outpath, "w") do |out|
-      IO::copy_stream(tgz, out)
-    end
-    File.unlink(file)
-  rescue
-    File.unlink(outpath) if File.file?(outpath)
-   raise
-  end
-  tgz.close
-end
-
-desc "Process any vendor files required for this plugin"
-task "vendor" do |task, args|
-
-  @files.each do |file| 
-    download = file_fetch(file['url'], file['sha1'])
-    if download =~ /.tar.gz/
-      prefix = download.gsub('.tar.gz', '').gsub('vendor/', '')
-      untar(download) do |entry|
-        if !file['files'].nil?
-          next unless file['files'].include?(entry.full_name.gsub(prefix, ''))
-          out = entry.full_name.split("/").last
-        end
-        File.join('vendor', out)
-      end
-    elsif download =~ /.gz/
-      ungz(download)
-    end
-  end
-
-end
diff --git a/spec/inputs/file_spec.rb b/spec/inputs/file_spec.rb
index 462ade1..4414fad 100644
--- a/spec/inputs/file_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/inputs/file_spec.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # encoding: utf-8
 
-require "spec_helper"
+require "logstash/devutils/rspec/spec_helper"
 require "tempfile"
 
 describe "inputs/file" do