diff --git a/ruby/.footprint b/ruby/.footprint
index 0d4acaa14..869253c1e 100644
--- a/ruby/.footprint
+++ b/ruby/.footprint
@@ -1043,19 +1043,19 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/gems/rdoc-4.1.0/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/gems/rdoc-4.1.0/bin/
 -rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/gems/rdoc-4.1.0/bin/rdoc
 -rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/gems/rdoc-4.1.0/bin/ri
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/gems/test-unit-2.1.1.0/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/gems/test-unit-2.1.1.0/bin/
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/gems/test-unit-2.1.1.0/bin/testrb
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/gems/test-unit-2.1.2.0/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/gems/test-unit-2.1.2.0/bin/
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/gems/test-unit-2.1.2.0/bin/testrb
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/specifications/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/specifications/default/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/specifications/default/bigdecimal-1.2.4.gemspec
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/specifications/default/io-console-0.4.2.gemspec
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/specifications/default/json-1.8.1.gemspec
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/specifications/default/minitest-4.7.5.gemspec
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/specifications/default/psych-2.0.3.gemspec
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/specifications/default/psych-2.0.5.gemspec
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/specifications/default/rake-10.1.0.gemspec
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/specifications/default/rdoc-4.1.0.gemspec
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/specifications/default/test-unit-2.1.1.0.gemspec
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1/specifications/default/test-unit-2.1.2.0.gemspec
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.1/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.1/x86_64-linux/
diff --git a/ruby/.md5sum b/ruby/.md5sum
index 0369d085a..429bbe7c5 100644
--- a/ruby/.md5sum
+++ b/ruby/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-5df0d715820deec596984e90feb6a999  ruby-2.1.1-readline-6.3.patch
-53edc33b2f590ecdd9f6a344b9d92d0d  ruby-2.1.1.tar.bz2
+ed9b8565bdeccb401d628ec8d54a0774  ruby-2.1.2.tar.bz2
diff --git a/ruby/Pkgfile b/ruby/Pkgfile
index c8b166dee..800314923 100644
--- a/ruby/Pkgfile
+++ b/ruby/Pkgfile
@@ -4,16 +4,13 @@
 # Depends on:  gdbm libgmp openssl readline zlib libffi libyaml
 
 name=ruby
-version=2.1.1
-release=2
-source=(ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/$name/2.1/$name-$version.tar.bz2
-        $name-$version-readline-6.3.patch)
+version=2.1.2
+release=1
+source=(ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/$name/2.1/$name-$version.tar.bz2)
 
 build () {
     cd $name-$version
 
-    patch -p0 -i $SRC/$name-$version-readline-6.3.patch 
-
     ./configure --prefix=/usr \
                 --mandir=/usr/man \
                 --enable-shared \
diff --git a/ruby/ruby-2.1.1-readline-6.3.patch b/ruby/ruby-2.1.1-readline-6.3.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4458127a1..000000000
--- a/ruby/ruby-2.1.1-readline-6.3.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/repository/revisions/45225
-
-
-Index: ext/readline/readline.c
-===================================================================
---- ext/readline/readline.c	(revision 45224)
-+++ ext/readline/readline.c	(revision 45225)
-@@ -1974,7 +1974,7 @@
- 
-     rl_attempted_completion_function = readline_attempted_completion_function;
- #if defined(HAVE_RL_PRE_INPUT_HOOK)
--    rl_pre_input_hook = (Function *)readline_pre_input_hook;
-+    rl_pre_input_hook = (rl_hook_func_t *)readline_pre_input_hook;
- #endif
- #ifdef HAVE_RL_CATCH_SIGNALS
-     rl_catch_signals = 0;