diff --git a/projects/gnu.org/make/package.yml b/projects/gnu.org/make/package.yml
index 846d2baf..da4304f7 100644
--- a/projects/gnu.org/make/package.yml
+++ b/projects/gnu.org/make/package.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ versions:
 provides:
   - bin/make
 
+interprets:
+  filename: Makefile
+  args: [make, --file]
+
 build:
   dependencies:
     gnu.org/m4: 1
diff --git a/projects/ruby-lang.org/defaults.rb.patch b/projects/ruby-lang.org/defaults.rb.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6f95d7d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/ruby-lang.org/defaults.rb.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/defaults.rb b/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/defaults.rb
+index 8daff0b..59ecd32 100644
+--- a/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/defaults.rb
++++ b/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/defaults.rb
+@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ module Gem
+   # specified in the environment
+ 
+   def self.default_dir
+-    @default_dir ||= File.join(RbConfig::CONFIG["rubylibprefix"], "gems", RbConfig::CONFIG["ruby_version"])
++    @default_dir ||= File.expand_path(File.join(__FILE__, "../../../../../../gems", RbConfig::CONFIG["ruby_version"]))
+   end
+ 
+   ##
diff --git a/projects/ruby-lang.org/package.yml b/projects/ruby-lang.org/package.yml
index 452daafd..8a0b9641 100644
--- a/projects/ruby-lang.org/package.yml
+++ b/projects/ruby-lang.org/package.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ versions:
 dependencies:
   openssl.org: ^1.1
   pyyaml.org: ^0.2
-  zlib.net: 1
+  zlib.net: ^1
 
 build:
   dependencies:
@@ -16,11 +16,17 @@ build:
     gnu.org/gettext: ^0.21
     tea.xyz/gx/cc: c99
     tea.xyz/gx/make: '*'
+    git-scm.org: ^2
   script: |
-    ./configure --prefix="{{prefix}}" --enable-load-relative
+    ./configure --prefix="{{prefix}}" --enable-load-relative --disable-rubygems
     make --jobs {{hw.concurrency}} install
 
-    cd "{{prefix}}"/bin
+    cd "{{prefix}}"
+
+    # use the GEM_PATH we want
+    git apply "$SRCROOT"/props/defaults.rb.patch
+
+    cd bin
 
     # we provide these as `rubygems.org`
     rm bundle bundler gem rake rbs rdbg typeprof
@@ -37,8 +43,18 @@ build:
       - rdoc
       - ri
 
-test: |
-  ruby -e 'puts "Hello World!"'
+test:
+  dependencies:
+    #NOTE rubygems.org depends on us… so it may be difficult to test this
+    # in a bootstrap scenario…
+    rubygems.org: '*'
+    tea.xyz/gx/cc: c99  # for native extensions
+    tea.xyz/gx/make: '*'
+  script: |
+    ruby -e 'puts "Hello World!"'
+    gem install hexapdf -v 0.28.0
+    hexapdf version
+    test -d "{{tea.prefix}}"/ruby-lang.org/gems/{{version}}/gems/hexapdf-0.28.0
 
 provides:
   - bin/erb