diff --git a/ruby/.md5sum b/ruby/.md5sum
index f6a2d8bc3..eb26e6654 100644
--- a/ruby/.md5sum
+++ b/ruby/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-f8ddb886b8a81cf005f53e9a9541091d  ruby-1.8.7-p160.tar.bz2
+bf297efaa24ec6cdb74963c0f608f6f1  ruby-1.8.7-p173.tar.bz2
 c4a32b5ca6006dc210e4022edbe85951  ruby-arch.patch
diff --git a/ruby/Pkgfile b/ruby/Pkgfile
index e07647472..7a3665118 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-p160
+version=1.8.7-p173
 release=1
 source=(ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/$name/1.8/$name-$version.tar.bz2 \
         $name-arch.patch)