diff --git a/bindings/ruby/Rakefile b/bindings/ruby/Rakefile
index 5fe0fe6..2ba61ac 100644
--- a/bindings/ruby/Rakefile
+++ b/bindings/ruby/Rakefile
@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
 require 'erb'
 require 'rubygems/package'
 
+BUILD_VERSION=1
 # Determine the current version of the software
 if File.read('../../CMakeLists.txt') =~ /project.*\s*VERSION\s*(\d.+)\)/
-  CURRENT_VERSION = $1
+  CURRENT_VERSION = "#{$1}.#{BUILD_VERSION}"
 else
-  CURRENT_VERSION = "0.0.0"
+  CURRENT_VERSION = "0.0.0.#{BUILD_VERSION}"
 end
 
 desc 'Generate gem specification'
 task :gemspec do
+  system("cp ../../LICENSE .")
+  system("cp ../../README.md .")
   tspec = ERB.new(File.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'lib','whispercpp.gemspec.erb')))
   File.open(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'whispercpp.gemspec'),'wb') do|f|
     f << tspec.result
diff --git a/bindings/ruby/lib/whispercpp.gemspec.erb b/bindings/ruby/lib/whispercpp.gemspec.erb
index 1ccba1a..e1e6e4b 100644
--- a/bindings/ruby/lib/whispercpp.gemspec.erb
+++ b/bindings/ruby/lib/whispercpp.gemspec.erb
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.date    = '<%= Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") %>'
   s.description = %q{High-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model via Ruby}
   s.email   = 'todd.fisher@gmail.com'
-  s.extra_rdoc_files = ['../../LICENSE', '../../README.md']
+  s.extra_rdoc_files = ['LICENSE', 'README.md']
   <%
-    files = %w(../../LICENSE ../../README.md Rakefile ext/extconf.rb) +
+    files = %w(LICENSE README.md Rakefile ext/extconf.rb) +
       Dir["lib/**/**.rb"] +
       Dir["ext/**/**.c"] +
       Dir["ext/**/**.cpp"] +