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+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+USE_RUBY="ruby20 ruby21 ruby22"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_DOC_DIR="rdoc"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="README.rdoc"
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="Extensions for Ruby's String class"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/rsl/stringex"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~ppc64"
+IUSE="test"
+
+# we could rely on activerecord[sqlite3], but since we do not remove the
+# sqlite3 adapter from activerecord when building -sqlite3, it's easier
+# to just add another dependency, so the user doesn't have to change the
+# USE flags at all.
+ruby_add_bdepend "
+	test? (
+		>=dev-ruby/i18n-0.6.9:0.6
+		dev-ruby/redcloth
+		dev-ruby/test-unit:2
+		>=dev-ruby/activerecord-3
+		dev-ruby/sqlite3 )"
+
+all_ruby_prepare() {
+	sed -i -e '1agem "i18n", "~>0.6.9"' test/test_helper.rb || die
+}
+
+each_ruby_test() {
+	# rake seems to break this
+	ruby-ng_testrb-2 -Ilib -Itest test/unit/*/*_test.rb test/performance/*_test.rb || die "tests failed"
+}