diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 21a9af1e84c..b5723ad60b2 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
+buildscript {
+    repositories {
+        jcenter()
+    }
+
+    dependencies {
+        classpath 'org.asciidoctor:asciidoctor-gradle-plugin:1.5.0'
+    }
+}
+
 apply plugin: 'java'
 apply plugin: 'application'
+apply plugin: 'org.asciidoctor.gradle.asciidoctor'
 apply from: 'gradle/javafx.gradle'
 
 version = '0.1.0-SNAPSHOT'
diff --git a/src/asciidoc/hello.adoc b/src/asciidoc/hello.adoc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9b4415d56a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/asciidoc/hello.adoc
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+= Hello, AsciiDoc!
+Doc Writer <doc@example.com>
+:showtitle:
+
+An introduction to http://asciidoc.org[AsciiDoc].
+
+== First Section
+
+* item 1
+* item 2
+
+[source,ruby]
+puts "Hello, World!"
+