diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index e7a12d1..6339eb3 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -1,41 +1,70 @@
 //
 // Primary gradle file for building and testing redstorm
 //
+buildscript {
+    repositories {
+        jcenter()
+    }
 
-plugins {
-  id "com.github.jruby-gradle.jar" version "0.1.2"
-  // https://github.com/jruby-gradle/jruby-gradle-jar-plugin/issues/18
-  id "com.github.jruby-gradle.base" version "0.1.4"
-  id "com.github.johnrengelman.shadow" version "1.1.2"
-  id "com.jfrog.bintray" version "0.6"
+    dependencies {
+        classpath 'com.github.jruby-gradle:jruby-gradle-jar-plugin:1.0.3'
+        classpath 'com.github.jruby-gradle:jruby-gradle-plugin:1.0.3'
+        classpath "com.jfrog.bintray.gradle:gradle-bintray-plugin:1.2"
+    }
 }
 
 apply plugin: 'maven'
 apply plugin: 'java'
+apply plugin: 'com.github.jruby-gradle.jar'
+apply plugin: 'com.jfrog.bintray'
 
-version = '0.7.2'
+version = '0.7.3'
 group = 'com.github.jruby-gradle'
-sourceCompatibility = 1.7
 
 // Any time we're not expicitly saying "build me a release build" we'll change
 // the version to -SNAPSHOT
-if (System.env.RELEASE != '1') {
+if (!(System.env.TRAVIS_TAG as Boolean)) {
     version = "${version}-SNAPSHOT"
 }
 
 import com.github.jrubygradle.JRubyExec
 
+jruby {
+    /* jrubyVersion defined in gradle.properties */
+    defaultVersion jrubyVersion
+    execVersion jrubyVersion
+}
+
+
+repositories {
+    jcenter()
+
+    // These two repositories are for storm dependencies
+    maven { url 'http://clojars.org/repo/' }
+    maven { url 'http://conjars.org/repo/' }
+}
+
+configurations {
+    // We don't need to include storm-core in the runtime dependencies for the
+    // redstorm.jar since it's provided by the storm cluster this code runs on top of
+    runtime.exclude module: 'storm-core'
+
+    // Make sure that any task using the jrubyExec configuration inherits the
+    // dependencies enumerated in the `compile` configuration
+    jrubyExec.extendsFrom compile
+}
+
 dependencies {
     // These compile dependencies are required just to compile our Java-based
     // redstorm code
-    compile group: 'com.github.jnr', name: 'jffi', version: '1.2.7'
-    compile group: 'org.apache.storm',
-            name: 'storm-core',
-            version: '0.9.2-incubating'
+    compile 'com.github.jnr:jffi:[1.2.7,1.3)'
+    compile 'org.apache.storm:storm-core:0.9.2-incubating'
+    // We don't yet support JRuby 9k so we'll limit ourselfs to the 1.7.x
+    compile "org.jruby:jruby-complete:[1.7.20,1.8)"
 
     // Gem dependencies needed to run our Ruby development tasks like 'spec'
-    jrubyExec group: 'rubygems', name: 'rspec', version: '2.13+'
-    jrubyExec group: 'rubygems', name: 'coveralls', version: '0.6.7+'
+    jrubyExec 'rubygems:rspec:2.99.0+'
+    jrubyExec 'rubygems:coveralls:0.6.7+'
 }
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@@ -51,7 +80,6 @@ task compileRedstormJRuby(type: JRubyExec) {
     outputs.dir(generatedDir)
 
     workingDir 'lib/red_storm'
-    jrubyArgs '-S'
     script 'jrubyc'
     scriptArgs '--prefix', 'red_storm',
        '--java',
@@ -70,38 +98,20 @@ project.compileJava.dependsOn compileRedstormJRuby
 task spec(type: JRubyExec) {
     group 'JRuby'
     description 'Run the RSpec examples'
-    jrubyArgs '-S'
     script 'rspec'
+    dependsOn compileJava
 }
+check.dependsOn spec
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
-
-repositories {
-    mavenCentral()
-
-    // These two repositories are for storm dependencies
-    maven { url 'http://clojars.org/repo/' }
-    maven { url 'http://conjars.org/repo/' }
-}
-
-configurations {
-    // We don't need to include storm-core in the runtime dependencies for the
-    // redstorm.jar since it's provided by the storm cluster this code runs on top of
-    runtime.exclude module: 'storm-core'
-
-    // Make sure that any task using the jrubyExec configuration inherits the
-    // dependencies enumerated in the `compile` configuration
-    jrubyExec.extendsFrom compile
-}
-
 sourceSets {
-  main {
-    java {
-        srcDirs 'src/main',
-                "${buildDir}/generated/java"
+    main {
+        java {
+            srcDirs "src/main",
+                        "${buildDir}/generated/java"
+        }
     }
-  }
 }
 
 // In addition to all of the compiled java sources, we need to include the Ruby
@@ -121,15 +131,6 @@ artifacts {
 }
 
 
-
-// Ensure we don't fail in CI or on a system without these values set in
-// ~/.gradle/gradle.properties
-if (!hasProperty( 'bintrayUser' ))
-  ext.bintrayUser = ''
-
-if (!hasProperty( 'bintrayKey' ))
-  ext.bintrayKey = ''
-
 bintray {
     user = project.bintrayUser
     key = project.bintrayKey
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..494718c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
+bintrayUser=
+bintrayKey=
+sourceCompatibility=1.7
+targetCompatibility=1.7
+jrubyVersion=1.7.21
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 73aad44..1b95066 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.6-all.zip