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+# Maintainer: George Rawlinson <grawlinson@archlinux.org>
+
+_gemname=shellany
+pkgname=ruby-$_gemname
+pkgver=0.0.1
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="Simple, somewhat portable command capturing"
+arch=('any')
+url="https://github.com/guard/shellany"
+license=('MIT')
+depends=('ruby')
+makedepends=('ruby-rdoc')
+options=('!emptydirs')
+source=("https://rubygems.org/downloads/$_gemname-$pkgver.gem")
+noextract=("$_gemname-$pkgver.gem")
+b2sums=('8c975a888f1c8ab829d29855594dbfeb7699509fae7c17fbe0b799365e8fc6e1d0728ccca1abc732cd9bde06822683ab347d6c090bc5c299ac32f2ca7db0d506')
+
+package() {
+  local _gemdir="$(ruby -e'puts Gem.default_dir')"
+
+  gem install \
+    --verbose \
+    --ignore-dependencies \
+    --no-user-install \
+    --install-dir "$pkgdir/$_gemdir" \
+    --bindir "$pkgdir/usr/bin" \
+    "$_gemname-$pkgver.gem"
+
+  # delete cache
+  cd "$pkgdir/$_gemdir"
+  rm -vrf cache
+
+  # delete unnecessary files & folders
+  cd "gems/$_gemname-$pkgver"
+  find . -type f -name ".*" -delete
+  rm -vrf "$_gemname.gemspec" spec Gemfile Rakefile
+
+  # move documentation
+  install -vd "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname"
+  mv -vt "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname" README.md
+
+  # move license
+  install -vd "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
+  mv -vt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname" LICENSE.txt
+}