diff --git a/dev-ruby/uri/Manifest b/dev-ruby/uri/Manifest
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+DIST uri-1.0.1.tar.gz 48128 BLAKE2B 469a6905673cb18d5011fcc03d6570f775b5f97ee7a17dae08480cc0d46fe852ae2a5b2fecfdc1a711f97f2321af602377efb712c71a39b7ebf5a570b7867fdb SHA512 4ea0c09a26177cb37852d4f54fb833ff39245581a1a1148ecb0ec9449b17d484ae50ac964b0379a7b668e1dd924dc1c79016f512a86fb6a0731b14d0db287c2c
diff --git a/dev-ruby/uri/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/uri/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>ruby@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Gentoo Ruby Project</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">ruby/uri</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="rubygems">uri</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-ruby/uri/uri-1.0.1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/uri/uri-1.0.1.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_BINWRAP=""
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="README.md"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="uri.gemspec"
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="URI is a module providing classes to handle Uniform Resource Identifiers"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/ruby/uri"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/ruby/uri/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="$(ver_cut 1)"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+
+ruby_add_bdepend "test? ( dev-ruby/test-unit dev-ruby/test-unit-ruby-core )"
+
+all_ruby_prepare() {
+	sed -e 's:_relative ": "./:' \
+		-i ${RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC} || die
+}