diff --git a/dev-ruby/gherkin3/Manifest b/dev-ruby/gherkin3/Manifest
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+DIST gherkin3-3.1.2.gem 28672 SHA256 1dc07216c9b19407518780036dd03c936d4391f0bb18a625d707f2ffb36555f1 SHA512 4476f6b87237293512edcdc131472b65e420a0675e837f473bdc0b938e3a38d428a5058637f421703dbf44a23aec856783e9fa1ecf259d7d63f9af78d96f13e4 WHIRLPOOL d497894ea741a71481b2b30a3d2c93b2098506f911291de4764c149970b9d14ab1deaa5b65bd0f9b8e3f0318fa0cff020336f2114e9d43faeedb01798debd4b4
diff --git a/dev-ruby/gherkin3/gherkin3-3.1.2.ebuild b/dev-ruby/gherkin3/gherkin3-3.1.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+USE_RUBY="ruby20 ruby21 ruby22"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_DOC="rdoc"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_TEST="rspec3"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_DOCDIR="rdoc"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="README.md"
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="Fast Gherkin lexer and parser"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/cucumber/gherkin3"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc64 ~x86"
+SLOT="3"
+IUSE=""
diff --git a/dev-ruby/gherkin3/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/gherkin3/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <herd>ruby</herd>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">cucumber/gherkin3</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>