diff --git a/dev-ruby/arel-helpers/Manifest b/dev-ruby/arel-helpers/Manifest
index dbf29ab45400..e277cf02ed15 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/arel-helpers/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ruby/arel-helpers/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST arel-helpers-2.16.0.tar.gz 11845 BLAKE2B 584ecaf16b19274674e92a524a256d3045b9007683123c8bf7bc73d02ec91be8513c4a1c0eff5e0be094db74772b31b0afd4186fb5950914d5d9d76348cc8f0e SHA512 b1d9b74c0082fabd4cf79c43d79f53a2e46e4647d5fbe05bdcdb3821692a46a15a1d6418c24155838c739e83c646f9af0c636b99bfc4f84c6355792c959fae8b
+DIST arel-helpers-2.17.0.tar.gz 12008 BLAKE2B 774311b13542e6a5659d89a8957566567f31419117612cd5445e5ee807a4980b036a980af8137749b09cd1c09e04d6d342bb8106c2068da8671150e8dd6d5e35 SHA512 05baf21b49550e4ef21ae73316641527ba39b383cbd5267bb5a3733060e105229d26e0d6fd11f5c7870893d386ab5e36032d5550fdb29624a24d356989e091cc
diff --git a/dev-ruby/arel-helpers/arel-helpers-2.17.0.ebuild b/dev-ruby/arel-helpers/arel-helpers-2.17.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2610fd048f65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ruby/arel-helpers/arel-helpers-2.17.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+USE_RUBY="ruby32 ruby33"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_TEST="rspec3"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="${PN}.gemspec"
+RUBY_S=${PN}-*
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_VERSION="$(ver_cut 1-3)"
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="Tools to help construct database queries"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/camertron/arel-helpers"
+# No test data in gems
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/camertron/arel-helpers/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm"
+
+ruby_add_rdepend "
+	|| (
+		dev-ruby/activerecord:8.1
+		dev-ruby/activerecord:8.0
+		dev-ruby/activerecord:7.2
+		dev-ruby/activerecord:7.1
+	)
+"
+
+ruby_add_bdepend "
+	test? (
+		dev-ruby/rr
+		dev-ruby/activerecord[sqlite]
+		dev-ruby/bundler
+		>=dev-ruby/combustion-1.3
+		>=dev-ruby/database_cleaner-2.0
+		>=dev-ruby/sqlite3-1.4
+	)
+"
+
+all_ruby_prepare() {
+	# pry is for debugging, not useful here
+	sed -e '/pry-/ s:^:#:' \
+		-i spec/spec_helper.rb || die
+
+	sed -e '2igem "activerecord", "<8.2"' \
+		-i Gemfile || die
+
+	sed \
+		-e '/rake/ s/~>/>=/' \
+		-e '/appraisal/ s:^:#:' \
+		-e '/database_cleaner/ s/1.8/1.7/' \
+		-e '/database_cleaner/ s/~>/>=/' \
+		-e '/sqlite3/ s/~>/>=/' \
+		-i arel-helpers.gemspec || die
+}
+
+each_ruby_test() {
+	${RUBY} -S bundle exec rake spec || die
+}