diff --git a/ruby/.md5sum b/ruby/.md5sum
index a13e075ec..7474fc9c5 100644
--- a/ruby/.md5sum
+++ b/ruby/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-2d57acee0d80531e14ec0f6826a1f9fb  ruby-1.8.7-p22.tar.bz2
-ccc3f4181d17d819ba46aa69089db0bd  ruby-arch.patch
+e23dd0dd619585df07acc1e3735ab5c7  ruby-1.8.7-p71.tar.bz2
+c4a32b5ca6006dc210e4022edbe85951  ruby-arch.patch
diff --git a/ruby/Pkgfile b/ruby/Pkgfile
index 460da2e53..c8b976f76 100644
--- a/ruby/Pkgfile
+++ b/ruby/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on:  db, gdbm, ncurses, openssl, readline, zlib
 
 name=ruby
-version=1.8.7-p22
+version=1.8.7-p71
 release=1
 source=(ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/$name/1.8/$name-$version.tar.bz2 \
         $name-arch.patch)
diff --git a/ruby/ruby-arch.patch b/ruby/ruby-arch.patch
index 64a407266..862f493e7 100644
--- a/ruby/ruby-arch.patch
+++ b/ruby/ruby-arch.patch
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-diff -Nru ruby-1.8.7.orig/configure ruby-1.8.7/configure
---- ruby-1.8.7.orig/configure	2008-06-23 10:12:35.000000000 +0200
-+++ ruby-1.8.7/configure	2008-06-23 10:12:55.000000000 +0200
-@@ -17608,7 +17608,7 @@
+diff -Nru ruby-1.8.7-p71.orig/configure ruby-1.8.7-p71/configure
+--- ruby-1.8.7-p71.orig/configure	2008-08-08 08:26:41.000000000 +0200
++++ ruby-1.8.7-p71/configure	2008-08-08 08:26:57.000000000 +0200
+@@ -17676,7 +17676,7 @@
  _ACEOF
  
  else