diff --git a/dev-ruby/dalli/Manifest b/dev-ruby/dalli/Manifest
index 28afdc8d6f803..a9d65fc99dfe5 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/dalli/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ruby/dalli/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST dalli-3.2.8.tar.gz 73367 BLAKE2B 1680fda0d272d135f8e88a0ea2e16a08cd1027808f0503334b8c53dd85472cc7c37df3649623f8347169f5b8cd645c9a1a4d98343e45d4369ce8d08cc1306316 SHA512 85a0d8121fd0e539b0fd6c15716971d91e91741d36850cf8e887d8fef17d6b49ea6036ce66c986aafd008aa0e744cd798bc574e9376383b9af33b0971e31e25c
 DIST dalli-4.0.0.tar.gz 86604 BLAKE2B 0da3ba44eac9c020edbd4bdf7e18c90fcf146193ad2f01781e623251f813d23bee579079e314555459681760efc6722f9c3ed3a0a0df810990888d851134a454 SHA512 cd267a6d6f957ff24091922c05a3fade55df4b00b21b49966431acdaa51043dd6174724d857dc7056b6b58cc8264c03679c07c044eb55da8d6aaae84b2f3b271
+DIST dalli-5.0.5.tar.gz 125345 BLAKE2B 5d1461312e8da68dc5ba74960d1cc1b1566c1c88292768e23234d62a11a2ff62c06f3d7ea284ae0a6b6bf8a1ee2a674cea8038a89dfb66d319fc1e551d2fa55e SHA512 defc49ca030a4425f3620330e17007f18ca81f65d1ff2b9f056543490b127828692920552522d69e5d9e3f63ddd935f642c90154d143870ecf7e52e2d2f96cb5
diff --git a/dev-ruby/dalli/dalli-5.0.5.ebuild b/dev-ruby/dalli/dalli-5.0.5.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..28d769e1d2166
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ruby/dalli/dalli-5.0.5.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+USE_RUBY="ruby32 ruby33 ruby34 ruby40"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_BINWRAP=""
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_TEST="MT_NO_PLUGINS=true test"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_DOCDIR="doc"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="CHANGELOG.md Performance.md README.md"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="${PN}.gemspec"
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="A high performance pure Ruby client for accessing memcached servers"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/petergoldstein/dalli"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/petergoldstein/dalli/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="$(ver_cut 1)"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND="test? ( >=net-misc/memcached-1.5.4[ssl(-)] )"
+
+ruby_add_rdepend "dev-ruby/logger"
+
+ruby_add_bdepend "test? (
+		dev-ruby/connection_pool
+		dev-ruby/minitest:6
+		dev-ruby/minitest-mock
+		dev-ruby/rack
+		dev-ruby/rack-session
+)"
+
+all_ruby_prepare() {
+	chmod 0755 "${HOME}" || die "Failed to fix permissions on home"
+
+	sed -i -e '/\(appraisal\|bundler\)/ s:^:#:' Rakefile || die
+
+	sed -i -e '3igem "minitest", "~> 6"; gem "minitest-mock"; require "dalli"' \
+		-e '/bundler/ s:^:#:' test/helper.rb || die
+
+	sed -i -e "s:/tmp:${T}:" test/utils/certificate_generator.rb || die
+
+	# Checks for unpackaged gems
+	rm test/test_gem_compatibility.rb || die
+
+	# FIXME:
+	sed -e "/'handles SSL error during read operations'/,/^      end/ s:^:#:" \
+		-e "/'handles SSL error during pipelined get'/,/^      end/ s:^:#:" \
+		-i test/integration/test_network.rb || die
+}