diff --git a/sylvilagus/jruby/Rakefile b/sylvilagus/jruby/Rakefile
index b87e112..e3f21f4 100644
--- a/sylvilagus/jruby/Rakefile
+++ b/sylvilagus/jruby/Rakefile
@@ -1,37 +1,43 @@
-require 'open-uri'
-
 RMQ_URI_BASE = 'http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-java-client'
 RMQV = '2.8.7'
+GSONV = '2.2.2'
 
 directory './tmp'
+directory './lib/java'
+
+file "./tmp/google-gson-#{GSONV}-release.zip" => ['./tmp'] do |t|
+  sh "curl -s -o #{t.name} " <<
+     "http://google-gson.googlecode.com/files/google-gson-#{GSONV}-release.zip"
+end
+
+file "./tmp/google-gson-#{GSONV}" => ["./tmp/google-gson-#{GSONV}-release.zip"] do
+  Dir.chdir('./tmp') do
+    sh "unzip -f -o google-gson-#{GSONV}-release.zip"
+  end
+end
+
+file "./lib/java/gson.jar" => ["./tmp/google-gson-#{GSONV}", './lib/java'] do |t|
+  sh "cp ./tmp/google-gson-#{GSONV}/gson-#{GSONV}.jar #{t.name}"
+end
 
 file "./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}.tar.gz" => ['./tmp'] do |t|
-  puts "*** Downloading tarball"
-  open("#{RMQ_URI_BASE}/v#{RMQV}/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}.tar.gz") do |dl|
-    open(t.name, 'w') do |out|
-      out.write(dl.read)
-    end
-  end
+  sh "curl -s -o #{t.name} " <<
+     "#{RMQ_URI_BASE}/v#{RMQV}/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}.tar.gz"
 end
 
 file "./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}/rabbitmq-client.jar" =>
     ["./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}.tar.gz"] do
-  puts "*** Extracting tarball"
   Dir.chdir('./tmp') do
-    sh "tar xzvf rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}.tar.gz"
+    sh "tar xzf rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}.tar.gz"
   end
 end
 
 file './lib/java/rabbitmq-client.jar' =>
-    ["./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}/rabbitmq-client.jar"] do
-  puts "*** Copying jars"
-  Dir["./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}/*.jar"].each do |jar|
-    puts "*** Copying #{jar} to ./lib/java"
-    FileUtils.cp(jar, './lib/java', :verbose => true)
-  end
+    ["./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}/rabbitmq-client.jar", './lib/java'] do
+  sh "cp ./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}/rabbitmq-client.jar ./lib/java/"
 end
 
-desc 'Download and copy over the rabbitmq client jar'
-task :rabbitmq_client_jar => ['./lib/java/rabbitmq-client.jar']
+desc 'Do everything to set up the things'
+task :setup => ['./lib/java/rabbitmq-client.jar', './lib/java/gson.jar']
 
-task :default => [:rabbitmq_client_jar]
+task :default => :setup