diff --git a/app/Distribution/CurrentPackageDescription.hs b/app/Distribution/CurrentPackageDescription.hs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..08263aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/Distribution/CurrentPackageDescription.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+module Distribution.CurrentPackageDescription
+  ( currentPackageDescription
+  , getField
+  ) where
+
+import Distribution.PackageDescription
+import Distribution.PackageDescription.Parse
+import Distribution.Verbosity
+
+import Data.List           (isSuffixOf)
+import Language.Haskell.TH (stringE, runIO, Q, Exp)
+import System.Directory    (getCurrentDirectory, getDirectoryContents)
+
+
+getField :: (PackageDescription -> String) -> Q Exp
+getField f = runIO currentPackageDescription >>= stringE . f
+
+currentPackageDescription :: IO PackageDescription
+currentPackageDescription = fmap packageDescription $ do
+  dir <- getCurrentDirectory
+  cs <- cabalFiles dir
+  case cs of
+    (c:_) -> readPackageDescription silent c
+    [] -> error $ "Couldn't find a cabal file in the current working directory (" ++ dir ++ ")"
+
+cabalFiles :: FilePath -> IO [FilePath]
+cabalFiles dir = do
+  files <- getDirectoryContents dir
+  return $ filter (".cabal" `isSuffixOf`) files
diff --git a/app/Ringo/ArgParser.hs b/app/Ringo/ArgParser.hs
index 50dce2c..b95d76d 100644
--- a/app/Ringo/ArgParser.hs
+++ b/app/Ringo/ArgParser.hs
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
 module Ringo.ArgParser (ProgArgs(..), parseArgs) where
 
 import qualified Data.Text as Text
+import qualified Distribution.Package as P
+import qualified Distribution.PackageDescription as P
+import qualified Distribution.CurrentPackageDescription as P
+import qualified Distribution.Text as DText
 
-import Data.List (intercalate)
-import Data.Version (showVersion)
+import Data.List                              (intercalate)
 import Options.Applicative
 
-import Paths_ringo (version)
-
 import Ringo.Types
 
 data ProgArgs = ProgArgs
@@ -98,15 +100,20 @@ progArgsParser =
                     <> action "directory"
                     <> help "Output directory")
 
+progName :: String
+progName = $(P.getField (DText.display . P.pkgName . P.package))
+
 versionParser :: Parser (a -> a)
-versionParser = infoOption ("ringo " ++ showVersion version)
+versionParser = infoOption (progName ++ " " ++ version)
   (long "version"
    <> help "Print version information")
+  where
+    version = $(P.getField (DText.display . P.pkgVersion . P.package))
 
 parseArgs :: IO ProgArgs
 parseArgs = execParser $
   info (helper <*> versionParser <*> progArgsParser)
        (fullDesc
-        <> progDesc "Transforms OLTP database schemas to OLAP database star schemas"
-        <> header "ringo - OLTP to OLAP schema transformer"
-        <> footer "Source: http://github.com/quintype/ringo")
+        <> progDesc $(P.getField P.description)
+        <> header (progName ++ " - " ++ $(P.getField P.synopsis))
+        <> footer ("© " ++ $(P.getField P.copyright) ++ ". " ++ $(P.getField P.homepage)))
diff --git a/ringo.cabal b/ringo.cabal
index 9e48b6e..9001d97 100644
--- a/ringo.cabal
+++ b/ringo.cabal
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 name:                ringo
 version:             0.1.0.0
-synopsis:            Tool to transform OLTP schemas to OLAP star schemas automatically
-description:         Please see README.md
-homepage:            http://github.com/quintype/ringo#readme
+synopsis:            OLTP to OLAP schema transformer
+description:         Tool to transform OLTP schemas to OLAP star schemas automatically
+homepage:            http://github.com/quintype/ringo
 license:             MIT
 license-file:        LICENSE
 author:              Abhinav Sarkar
 maintainer:          abhinav@abhinavsarkar.net
-copyright:           2015 Quintype Inc, Nilenso Software LLP
+copyright:           2015-2016 Quintype Inc, Nilenso Software LLP
 category:            SQL
 build-type:          Simple
 -- extra-source-files:
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ library
 executable ringo
   hs-source-dirs:      app
   other-modules:       Ringo.ArgParser,
-                       Ringo.InputParser
+                       Ringo.InputParser,
+                       Distribution.CurrentPackageDescription
   main-is:             Main.hs
   build-depends:       base                 >=4.7     && <5,
                        text                 >=1.2     && <1.3,
@@ -53,6 +54,8 @@ executable ringo
                        directory            >=1.2     && <1.3,
                        filepath             >=1.3     && <1.5,
                        aeson                >=0.8     && <0.12,
+                       Cabal                >=1.18    && <1.23,
+                       template-haskell     >=2.9     && <2.11,
                        ringo
   ghc-options:         -Wall -Werror -fwarn-incomplete-uni-patterns -fno-warn-unused-do-bind
                        -fno-warn-orphans -funbox-strict-fields -O2