diff --git a/dev-ruby/patron/Manifest b/dev-ruby/patron/Manifest
index 879977f4a808b..3fe134b1d255b 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/patron/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ruby/patron/Manifest
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ DIST patron-0.5.0.gem 44032 SHA256 6abf431b05f560afc8c479685bb3869797522290777a1
 DIST patron-0.5.1.gem 45056 SHA256 45776b937ee788343ce4d24817460138989b1a65ad9d8d87130cf8804133444e SHA512 d47549ae1712f25e0d15bc2e1e32de6ad3084da4f0149013c4cf50dd92ccb7c01024831ef6df7c4acb78ed3923cde95e3f36a5ef8430d3f103ebb7f5906dd0fd WHIRLPOOL b766263104b67ad1ba9009e101ac027e509ed017f0b93461d8f4c9f51b8b5586dc4da080b1685b72bad837bf690ea02f709fab7a76dddd11f7450ea0e8994fca
 DIST patron-0.6.5.gem 54272 SHA256 eb7ec133b4fedb240543fa96061ee52fa9ede2bcf6351d13b5cc057d6fec6935 SHA512 ffb2681b7ca062f78931d288314e563f265c9e584b3cb82af16529e8c9b578cca4d57c6e2afc506562cc946def736814b1da13a2630273551e7bf179786516cc WHIRLPOOL cda9b38b74efc0593de4c89dc4efc91ac1431b12293cd83fee32cd7aff1c85c1fcdc7b8c16f54fb0aa4dacc3901cbb37b3dfa2a9d4dd8b4f1011d1c55965efcd
 DIST patron-0.7.1.gem 54784 SHA256 aa75525e6f0064d82aacf86241f8ff381c5d8116d4199113d042b1ac8ff4b91d SHA512 bb95c98d28cc09157c05d3f39694df2b165cb72a46d54d41ca03eca992b94f579a62c081692bf81685852d46668c363e975726142622932d74fd73521414556a WHIRLPOOL f4575d4315c76425963194105b6be2b65ad498f457167312517f70f7497a0a87274466e717cc6bf1dbac9f35796ff7c484f5a147f6201347e202d5ad5db34290
+DIST patron-0.8.0.gem 57856 SHA256 954db224e16421c78c55d190b2310c3201c68e72767908faead76a9c5a5159df SHA512 43d6ae99aa3db3c5dabd2c3ec7fe5371a204d6e6ccec2c50b0cc126878b0db583e8a266b2b8e0f3ce7cdfde046bd36622e26d653e7ccae7b493ec924021b5f16 WHIRLPOOL b176ced2464b52c3a1bd4412e8c5d0ca7c3c8ee6da2c7c59cf4442c04eeefd07cd6c1c76d93cb2c6ba63c51326d8e1c317e760bf7bbf7506f43ca923a105c04a
diff --git a/dev-ruby/patron/patron-0.8.0.ebuild b/dev-ruby/patron/patron-0.8.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..14a12a44cf38f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ruby/patron/patron-0.8.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+USE_RUBY="ruby20 ruby21 ruby22 ruby23"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_TEST="rspec3"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_DOC="rdoc"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="README.md"
+
+inherit multilib ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="Patron is a Ruby HTTP client library based on libcurl"
+HOMEPAGE="https://toland.github.com/patron/"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~ppc64 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND+=" net-misc/curl"
+RDEPEND+=" net-misc/curl"
+
+all_ruby_prepare() {
+	# Fix Rakefile
+	sed -i -e 's:rake/rdoctask:rdoc/task:' \
+		-e 's/README.txt/README.md/' \
+		-e '/bundler/I s:^:#:' \
+		-e '/extensiontask/ s:^:#:' \
+		-e '/ExtensionTask/,/^end/ s:^:#:' \
+		Rakefile || die
+
+	# Avoid specs with failures. We were not running any specs before.
+	rm spec/session_ssl_spec.rb spec/session_spec.rb spec/response_spec.rb || die
+}
+
+each_ruby_configure() {
+	${RUBY} -Cext/patron extconf.rb || die
+}
+
+each_ruby_compile() {
+	emake -Cext/patron V=1
+	cp ext/patron/session_ext$(get_modname) lib/patron/ || die "Unable to cp shared object file"
+}