diff --git a/dev-ruby/commonmarker/Manifest b/dev-ruby/commonmarker/Manifest
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+DIST commonmarker-0.23.5.tar.gz 165248 BLAKE2B 2d29a0ece01b5000bbb7192133e6abd0bf50281e90ae1d7036ffc49d8576bf378845c782d65b462274b4586b99ee3f46b7312cd0d0ac71456de9a4dacdccb8c3 SHA512 ccc76f0a2eb40d547e604cb4d10b922eceab40a0d0e07f00c60a5b307f3dcb74984274b231c38fe3ba97c892dea54fd325486ba20aa2b0087e99d6bca3e3845c
diff --git a/dev-ruby/commonmarker/commonmarker-0.23.5.ebuild b/dev-ruby/commonmarker/commonmarker-0.23.5.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+USE_RUBY="ruby27 ruby30 ruby31"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTENSIONS=(ext/commonmarker/extconf.rb)
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTENSION_LIBDIR="lib/commonmarker"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="CHANGELOG.md README.md"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="commonmarker.gemspec"
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="A fast, safe, extensible parser for CommonMark, wrapping the official libcmark library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/gjtorikian/commonmarker"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/gjtorikian/commonmarker/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="$(ver_cut 1)"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE=""
+
+# app-text/cmark is bundled in a modified way and integrated with the gem code
+
+all_ruby_prepare() {
+	sed -i -e '/focus/ s:^:#:' test/test_helper.rb || die
+
+	# Avoid tests depending on unbundled cmark specification files
+	rm -f test/test_{spec,smartpunct}.rb || die
+
+}
+
+each_ruby_prepare() {
+	# Use current ruby version
+	sed -i -e '/make_bin/,/end/ s:ruby:'${RUBY}':' test/test_helper.rb || die
+}
+
+each_ruby_test() {
+	${RUBY} -Ilib:test:. -e 'Dir["test/test_*.rb"].each {|f| require f}' || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-ruby/commonmarker/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/commonmarker/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">gjtorikian/commonmarker</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>