diff --git a/dev-util/cucumber-messages/Manifest b/dev-util/cucumber-messages/Manifest
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+DIST cucumber-messages-2.1.1.gem 9728 BLAKE2B 07ad0635f92d7aa25c9ede7915abd73a27db9894dd62d6a5b0f0e7b4bfd649f7a88b46bcab5cd42b18895933002e7650073becff16ab624b80abef97a23ea4e9 SHA512 0858de8b7211307c18f6c41c5316b5b29edd1f829ca27ada8c2bb13ef84099a5745b54894bf8ec72304d147a1cead693c109c5ffdf9fc105cf1795bd522e27fa
diff --git a/dev-util/cucumber-messages/cucumber-messages-2.1.1.ebuild b/dev-util/cucumber-messages/cucumber-messages-2.1.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+USE_RUBY="ruby23 ruby24 ruby25"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_DOC="rdoc"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_TEST="rspec3"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="README.md"
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="Protocol Buffer messages for Cucumber's inter-process communication"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-messages-ruby#readme"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+SLOT="2.0"
+
+ruby_add_rdepend "~dev-ruby/google-protobuf-3.6.1"
diff --git a/dev-util/cucumber-messages/metadata.xml b/dev-util/cucumber-messages/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>graaff@gentoo.org</email>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">cucumber/cucumber-messages-ruby</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>