diff --git a/dev-ruby/ethon/Manifest b/dev-ruby/ethon/Manifest
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+DIST ethon-0.16.0.gem 60416 BLAKE2B 6970554d8cbde18c0e08c95826f6444614d8378a3889e9347cc66170f80b947951312e3e65712106864351285f331ea0cb67c2e24e22ecc335fc0fbd571eb521 SHA512 3b31affcee0d5a5be05b5497d4a8d13515f8393f54579a3a9c8de49f78d3f065bb92659434b023f0a8bf8e0cccfbc94b617695b93c4d3f744cccd1eff2e68905
diff --git a/dev-ruby/ethon/ethon-0.16.0.ebuild b/dev-ruby/ethon/ethon-0.16.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+USE_RUBY="ruby31 ruby32 ruby33"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_DOC=""
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="CHANGELOG.md README.md"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_TEST="rspec3"
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="Very lightweight libcurl wrapper"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/typhoeus/ethon"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND+=" net-misc/curl"
+
+ruby_add_rdepend ">=dev-ruby/ffi-1.15.0"
+
+ruby_add_bdepend "test? (
+	|| ( dev-ruby/rackup dev-ruby/rack:2.2 )
+	dev-ruby/sinatra
+	dev-ruby/mime-types
+	dev-ruby/webrick
+)"
+
+all_ruby_prepare() {
+	rm Gemfile || die
+	sed -e '/bundler/I s:^:#:' \
+		-e '1igem "sinatra"' -i Rakefile spec/spec_helper.rb || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-ruby/ethon/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/ethon/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">typhoeus/ethon</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>