diff --git a/dev-ruby/bootsnap/Manifest b/dev-ruby/bootsnap/Manifest
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+DIST bootsnap-1.24.6.tar.gz 62596 BLAKE2B 640166df882820558fd778acb18589f0f10542879fcf869336814cf6a1c45068ac03884ecbecd7a5c26f30906e3ac8b07884651f8ba9a807a043256a86459dd9 SHA512 af38f19ee5a7cea7b0a433ac79a2c78a46ae698b5c3851c9c6e85da7be4d04ef60dbc739bf668aa5de15b45e0503f0f684924ca01a0abca713a908a06b949ed2
diff --git a/dev-ruby/bootsnap/bootsnap-1.24.6.ebuild b/dev-ruby/bootsnap/bootsnap-1.24.6.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+USE_RUBY="ruby32 ruby33 ruby34 ruby40"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="bootsnap.gemspec"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_BINDIR="exe"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTENSIONS=( ext/bootsnap/extconf.rb )
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTENSION_LIBDIR="lib/bootsnap"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_TEST="test"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="CHANGELOG.md README.md"
+
+inherit edo ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="Boot large ruby/rails apps faster"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/rails/bootsnap"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/rails/bootsnap/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+ruby_add_rdepend "
+	>=dev-ruby/msgpack-1.2
+"
+ruby_add_bdepend "
+	test? (
+		dev-ruby/bundler
+		dev-ruby/minitest:5
+		>=dev-ruby/mocha-3
+	)
+"
+
+all_ruby_prepare() {
+	sed -e 's:`git ls-files -z \(.*\)`:`find \1 -print0`:' \
+		-i ${RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC} || die
+
+	sed -e '/rubocop/ s:^:#:' \
+		-e '/rake-compiler/ s:^:#:' \
+		-i Gemfile || die
+
+	sed -e '/rake\/extensiontask/ s:^:#:' \
+		-e '/Rake::ExtensionTask/,/^end/ s:^:#:' \
+		-i Rakefile || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-ruby/bootsnap/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/bootsnap/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">rails/bootsnap</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="rubygems">bootsnap</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>