diff --git a/dev-ruby/stringex/stringex-2.8.5.ebuild b/dev-ruby/stringex/stringex-2.8.5.ebuild
index 30df68532aba0..1b59c985132bb 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/stringex/stringex-2.8.5.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/stringex/stringex-2.8.5.ebuild
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
-USE_RUBY="ruby23 ruby24 ruby25"
+USE_RUBY="ruby23 ruby24 ruby25 ruby26"
 
 RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_DOC="rdoc"
 
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ IUSE="test"
 # USE flags at all.
 ruby_add_bdepend "
 	test? (
-		>=dev-ruby/i18n-0.7.0:0.7
+		dev-ruby/i18n:1
 		dev-ruby/redcloth
 		dev-ruby/test-unit:2
 		>=dev-ruby/activerecord-3
 		dev-ruby/sqlite3 )"
 
 all_ruby_prepare() {
-	sed -i -e '1agem "i18n", "~>0.7.0"' test/test_helper.rb || die
+	sed -i -e '1agem "i18n", "~>1.0"' test/test_helper.rb || die
 }