diff --git a/README.rdoc b/README.rdoc
index 5532678..7025a73 100644
--- a/README.rdoc
+++ b/README.rdoc
@@ -36,10 +36,12 @@ Supplying priority countries to be placed at the top of the list:
 * Marten Klitzke (https://github.com/mortik)
 * Victor D. (https://github.com/V1c70r)
 * Alexey Degtyarev (https://github.com/alexhifer)
+* Björn Wilmsmann (https://github.com/BjoernKW)
 
 Based on the deprecated country_code_select by: Russ Smith (russ@bashme.org) and Frank Wambutt (frank@mo-stud.io)
 
 == Version History
+* 1.1.0 - Rails 4 support
 * 1.0.19 - Added Macedonia
 * 1.0.18 - Fixed translated sorting
 * 1.0.17 - Removing duplicate country code IE
diff --git a/lib/i18n_country_select.rb b/lib/i18n_country_select.rb
index b06727e..2bb8414 100644
--- a/lib/i18n_country_select.rb
+++ b/lib/i18n_country_select.rb
@@ -8,5 +8,9 @@
 require "i18n_country_select/instance_tag"
 
 ActionView::Base.send(:include, I18nCountrySelect::FormHelpers)
-ActionView::Helpers::ActiveModelInstanceTag.send(:include, I18nCountrySelect::InstanceTag)
+if Rails::VERSION::MAJOR >= 4
+  ActionView::Helpers::ActiveModelInstanceTag.send(:include, I18nCountrySelect::InstanceTag)
+else
+  ActionView::Helpers::InstanceTag.send(:include, I18nCountrySelect::InstanceTag)
+end
 ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder.send(:include, I18nCountrySelect::FormBuilder)
diff --git a/lib/i18n_country_select/form_helpers.rb b/lib/i18n_country_select/form_helpers.rb
index c987688..239b0cb 100644
--- a/lib/i18n_country_select/form_helpers.rb
+++ b/lib/i18n_country_select/form_helpers.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 module I18nCountrySelect
   module FormHelpers
     def country_code_select(object_name, method, priority_countries = nil, options = {}, html_options = {})
-      ActionView::Helpers::InstanceTag.new(object_name, method, self, options.delete(:object)).to_country_code_select_tag(priority_countries, options, html_options)
+      if Rails::VERSION::MAJOR >= 4
+        instance_tag = ActionView::Helpers::Tags::Select.new(object_name, method, self, [], options, html_options)
+        return instance_tag.to_country_code_select_tag(priority_countries, options.delete(:object), html_options)
+     else
+       instance_tag = ActionView::Helpers::InstanceTag.new(object_name, method, self, options.delete(:object))
+       return instance_tag.to_country_code_select_tag(priority_countries, options, html_options)
+     end
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/i18n_country_select/instance_tag.rb b/lib/i18n_country_select/instance_tag.rb
index d970dc8..c4b26db 100644
--- a/lib/i18n_country_select/instance_tag.rb
+++ b/lib/i18n_country_select/instance_tag.rb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ def country_code_select(priority_countries, options, html_options)
 
       countries = ""
 
-      if options[:include_blank]
+      if options.present? and options[:include_blank]
         option = options[:include_blank] == true ? "" : options[:include_blank]
         countries += "<option>#{option}</option>\n"
       end
diff --git a/lib/i18n_country_select/version.rb b/lib/i18n_country_select/version.rb
index 71dcbbe..34364ec 100644
--- a/lib/i18n_country_select/version.rb
+++ b/lib/i18n_country_select/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module I18nCountrySelect
-  VERSION = "1.0.19"
+  VERSION = "1.1.0"
 end