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diff --git a/gnu/packages/ruby.scm b/gnu/packages/ruby.scm
index 92e726de64..fcb800a788 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ruby.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ruby.scm
@@ -774,6 +774,34 @@ Ruby Gems.")
(home-page "https://github.com/postmodern/rubygems-tasks")
(license license:expat)))
+(define-public ruby-ffi
+ (package
+ (name "ruby-ffi")
+ (version "1.9.10")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (rubygems-uri "ffi" version))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1m5mprppw0xcrv2mkim5zsk70v089ajzqiq5hpyb0xg96fcyzyxj"))))
+ (build-system ruby-build-system)
+ ;; FIXME: Before running tests the build system attempts to build libffi
+ ;; from sources.
+ (arguments `(#:tests? #f))
+ (native-inputs
+ `(("ruby-rake-compiler" ,ruby-rake-compiler)
+ ("ruby-rspec" ,ruby-rspec)
+ ("ruby-rubygems-tasks" ,ruby-rubygems-tasks)))
+ (inputs
+ `(("libffi" ,libffi)))
+ (synopsis "Ruby foreign function interface library")
+ (description "Ruby-FFI is a Ruby extension for programmatically loading
+dynamic libraries, binding functions within them, and calling those functions
+from Ruby code. Moreover, a Ruby-FFI extension works without changes on Ruby
+and JRuby.")
+ (home-page "http://wiki.github.com/ffi/ffi")
+ (license license:bsd-3)))
+
(define-public ruby-useragent
(package
(name "ruby-useragent")