diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 152592d..866c047 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ begin
     gemspec.homepage = "http://github.com/couchrest/couchrest_model"
     gemspec.authors = ["J. Chris Anderson", "Matt Aimonetti", "Marcos Tapajos", "Will Leinweber", "Sam Lown"]
     gemspec.extra_rdoc_files = %w( README.md LICENSE THANKS.md )
-    gemspec.files = %w( LICENSE README.md Rakefile THANKS.md history.txt couchrest.gemspec) + Dir["{examples,lib,spec,utils}/**/*"] - Dir["spec/tmp"]
+    gemspec.files = %w( LICENSE README.md Rakefile THANKS.md history.txt couchrest.gemspec) + Dir["{examples,lib,spec}/**/*"] - Dir["spec/tmp"]
     gemspec.has_rdoc = true
     gemspec.add_dependency("couchrest", ">= 1.0.0.beta")
     gemspec.add_dependency("mime-types", ">= 1.15")
diff --git a/utils/remap.rb b/utils/remap.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 131aeb3..0000000
--- a/utils/remap.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-require 'rubygems'
-require 'couchrest'
-
-# set the source db and map view
-source = CouchRest.new("http://127.0.0.1:5984").database('source-db')
-source_view = 'mydesign/view-map'
-
-# set the target db
-target = CouchRest.new("http://127.0.0.1:5984").database('target-db')
-
-
-pager = CouchRest::Pager.new(source)
-
-# pager will yield once per uniq key in the source view
-
-pager.key_reduce(source_view, 10000) do |key, values|
-  # create a doc from the key and the values
-  example_doc = {
-    :key => key,
-    :values => values.uniq
-  }
-
-  target.save(example_doc)
-  
-  # keep us up to date with progress
-  puts k if (rand > 0.9)
-end
diff --git a/utils/subset.rb b/utils/subset.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b7adb9..0000000
--- a/utils/subset.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-require 'rubygems'
-require 'couchrest'
-
-# subset.rb replicates a percentage of a database to a fresh database.
-# use it to create a smaller dataset on which to prototype views.
-
-# specify the source database
-source = CouchRest.new("http://127.0.0.1:5984").database('source-db')
-
-# specify the target database
-target = CouchRest.new("http://127.0.0.1:5984").database('target-db')
-
-# pager efficiently yields all view rows
-pager = CouchRest::Pager.new(source)
-
-pager.all_docs(1000) do |rows|  
-  docs = rows.collect do |r|
-    # the percentage of docs to clone
-    next if rand > 0.1 
-    doc = source.get(r['id'])
-    doc.delete('_rev')
-    doc      
-  end.compact
-  puts docs.length
-  next if docs.empty?
-
-  puts docs.first['_id']
-  target.bulk_save(docs)
-end
-