diff --git a/ruby/.md5sum b/ruby/.md5sum
index d4da5ce11..0369d085a 100644
--- a/ruby/.md5sum
+++ b/ruby/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+5df0d715820deec596984e90feb6a999  ruby-2.1.1-readline-6.3.patch
 53edc33b2f590ecdd9f6a344b9d92d0d  ruby-2.1.1.tar.bz2
diff --git a/ruby/Pkgfile b/ruby/Pkgfile
index 165a10027..c8b166dee 100644
--- a/ruby/Pkgfile
+++ b/ruby/Pkgfile
@@ -5,12 +5,15 @@
 
 name=ruby
 version=2.1.1
-release=1
-source=(ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/$name/2.1/$name-$version.tar.bz2)
+release=2
+source=(ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/$name/2.1/$name-$version.tar.bz2
+        $name-$version-readline-6.3.patch)
 
 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
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4458127a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ruby/ruby-2.1.1-readline-6.3.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# 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;