diff --git a/ext/candle/src/lib.rs b/ext/candle/src/lib.rs
index d7645f2..57f7b5d 100644
--- a/ext/candle/src/lib.rs
+++ b/ext/candle/src/lib.rs
@@ -92,7 +92,10 @@ fn init(ruby: &Ruby) -> RbResult<()> {
     rb_qtensor.define_method("dequantize", method!(RbQTensor::dequantize, 0))?;
 
     let rb_model = rb_candle.define_class("Model", Ruby::class_object(ruby))?;
+    rb_model.define_singleton_method("new", function!(ModelConfig::new, 0))?;
     rb_model.define_method("embedding", method!(ModelConfig::embedding, 1))?;
+    rb_model.define_method("to_s", method!(ModelConfig::__str__, 0))?;
+    rb_model.define_method("inspect", method!(ModelConfig::__repr__, 0))?;
 
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/ext/candle/src/model/config.rs b/ext/candle/src/model/config.rs
index 02f8a40..f74a91f 100644
--- a/ext/candle/src/model/config.rs
+++ b/ext/candle/src/model/config.rs
@@ -11,12 +11,14 @@ use crate::model::{
 use candle_core::{DType, Device, Module, Tensor};
 use candle_nn::VarBuilder;
 use candle_transformers::models::jina_bert::{BertModel, Config};
-use core::result::Result;
 use magnus::Error;
+use crate::model::RbResult;
 use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
 
 #[magnus::wrap(class = "Candle::Model", free_immediately, size)]
-pub struct ModelConfig {
+pub struct ModelConfig(pub ModelConfigInner);
+
+pub struct ModelConfigInner {
     device: Device,
 
     tokenizer_path: Option<String>,
@@ -25,17 +27,33 @@ pub struct ModelConfig {
 }
 
 impl ModelConfig {
-    pub fn build() -> ModelConfig {
-        ModelConfig {
+    pub fn new() -> RbResult<Self> {
+        Ok(ModelConfig(ModelConfigInner {
             device: Device::Cpu,
             model_path: None,
             tokenizer_path: None,
-        }
+        }))
+    }
+
+    pub fn build() -> ModelConfig {
+        ModelConfig(ModelConfigInner {
+            device: Device::Cpu,
+            model_path: None,
+            tokenizer_path: None
+        })
     }
 
-    pub fn build_model_and_tokenizer(&self) -> Result<(BertModel, tokenizers::Tokenizer), Error> {
+    /// Performs the `sin` operation on the tensor.
+    /// &RETURNS&: Tensor
+    pub fn embedding(&self, input: String) -> RbResult<RbTensor> {
+        let config = ModelConfig::build();
+        let (model, tokenizer) = config.build_model_and_tokenizer()?;
+        Ok(RbTensor(self.compute_embedding(input, model, tokenizer)?))
+    }
+
+    fn build_model_and_tokenizer(&self) -> Result<(BertModel, tokenizers::Tokenizer), Error> {
         use hf_hub::{api::sync::Api, Repo, RepoType};
-        let model_path = match &self.model_path {
+        let model_path = match &self.0.model_path {
             Some(model_file) => std::path::PathBuf::from(model_file),
             None => Api::new()
                 .map_err(wrap_hf_err)?
@@ -46,7 +64,7 @@ impl ModelConfig {
                 .get("model.safetensors")
                 .map_err(wrap_hf_err)?,
         };
-        let tokenizer_path = match &self.tokenizer_path {
+        let tokenizer_path = match &self.0.tokenizer_path {
             Some(file) => std::path::PathBuf::from(file),
             None => Api::new()
                 .map_err(wrap_hf_err)?
@@ -61,19 +79,13 @@ impl ModelConfig {
         let config = Config::v2_base();
         let tokenizer = tokenizers::Tokenizer::from_file(tokenizer_path).map_err(wrap_std_err)?;
         let vb = unsafe {
-            VarBuilder::from_mmaped_safetensors(&[model_path], DType::F32, &self.device)
+            VarBuilder::from_mmaped_safetensors(&[model_path], DType::F32, &self.0.device)
                 .map_err(wrap_candle_err)?
         };
         let model = BertModel::new(vb, &config).map_err(wrap_candle_err)?;
         Ok((model, tokenizer))
     }
 
-    pub fn embedding(&self, input: String) -> Result<RbTensor, Error> {
-        let config = ModelConfig::build();
-        let (model, tokenizer) = config.build_model_and_tokenizer()?;
-        return Ok(RbTensor(self.compute_embedding(input, model, tokenizer)?));
-    }
-
     fn compute_embedding(
         &self,
         prompt: String,
@@ -91,7 +103,7 @@ impl ModelConfig {
             .map_err(wrap_std_err)?
             .get_ids()
             .to_vec();
-        let token_ids = Tensor::new(&tokens[..], &self.device)
+        let token_ids = Tensor::new(&tokens[..], &self.0.device)
             .map_err(wrap_candle_err)?
             .unsqueeze(0)
             .map_err(wrap_candle_err)?;
@@ -100,7 +112,15 @@ impl ModelConfig {
         let result = model.forward(&token_ids).map_err(wrap_candle_err)?;
         println!("{result}");
         println!("Took {:?}", start.elapsed());
-        return Ok(result);
+        Ok(result)
+    }
+
+    pub fn __repr__(&self) -> String {
+        format!("Candle::Model(path={})", self.0.model_path.as_deref().unwrap_or("None"))
+    }
+
+    pub fn __str__(&self) -> String {
+        self.__repr__()
     }
 }