diff --git a/dev-ruby/rex-socket/Manifest b/dev-ruby/rex-socket/Manifest
index 5ee30c0bfd706..30dc872170d96 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/rex-socket/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ruby/rex-socket/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST rex-socket-0.1.15.gem 40960 BLAKE2B c452a0e8f95d3a5e2820d55e25d077aa594c9eba4982a953d4312bac4d5d32bdfec8dfc6b2a1f77ce9cbaaa60d7c3f0f5eb9da7407c131c89cf1eaffd4dca03c SHA512 edcc01e5c1235abc41a5579b56a04cdcb34710d24225fa9e925ecd91555429071eed281591df1a97cb8db035d63aae0c7a86aa93dc96289f42d1a56241b95fbb
 DIST rex-socket-0.1.16.gem 40960 BLAKE2B d4953d8a5ed3b58326e0bd4e916895b669dd6b62f76f3a719eeeaa237451562d7dbcf57ee90b2837f301e7a362d866d88c7cbf10bb480060ae6ece40478ab4be SHA512 6d78bf24c68d2416bdd2c9953a18095799fd4c6e5d79803accec3aa7159b00a0676553e91d38250f83f3e36846070cf2842e318a93b53e5a979ef8ad86b2f3ef
+DIST rex-socket-0.1.17.gem 40960 BLAKE2B af549e3c6bc6ab8f99a18eab8f8be5156211be468f4d55e234199d5b5985a8ac11817f245a6bafa421c0b8c908cfedf7e58503157c460fee76ec989ff628a8bd SHA512 2d7dc563d24ef99930ad6fc62ce69ced2a7d2cec881222edf889c6850b8ce48a49eb435acd1bd57637d07ab0434032e44084dc86d18a52c33c3f8df57928958e
diff --git a/dev-ruby/rex-socket/rex-socket-0.1.17.ebuild b/dev-ruby/rex-socket/rex-socket-0.1.17.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e5f80844af5d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ruby/rex-socket/rex-socket-0.1.17.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+USE_RUBY="ruby23 ruby24 ruby25 ruby26"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_TEST="none"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_DOC=""
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_BINWRAP=""
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="Ruby Exploitation (Rex) Socket Abstraction Library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://rubygems.org/gems/rex-socket"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+ruby_add_bdepend "dev-ruby/rex-core"