diff --git a/srcpkgs/ruby/patches/fiddle-libffi-version.patch b/srcpkgs/ruby/patches/fiddle-libffi-version.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index db5b516c030..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/ruby/patches/fiddle-libffi-version.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-Patch for ruby 2.1.2, upstream for next 2.1.x.
-
---- ext/fiddle/extconf.rb	2014/06/20 22:48:41	46484
-+++ ext/fiddle/extconf.rb	2014/06/21 03:54:19	46485
-@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
- pkg_config("libffi")
- if ver = pkg_config("libffi", "modversion")
-   ver = ver.gsub(/-rc\d+/, '') # If ver contains rc version, just ignored.
--  $defs.push(%{-DRUBY_LIBFFI_MODVERSION=#{ '%d%03d%03d' % ver.split('.') }})
-+  ver = (ver.split('.') + [0,0])[0,3]
-+  $defs.push(%{-DRUBY_LIBFFI_MODVERSION=#{ '%d%03d%03d' % ver }})
- end
- 
- unless have_header('ffi.h')
diff --git a/srcpkgs/ruby/template b/srcpkgs/ruby/template
index 14aa4ca1841..b03fb5f0a2b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/ruby/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/ruby/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template build file for 'ruby'.
 pkgname=ruby
-version=2.1.2
+version=2.1.3
 _ruby_abiver=2.1.0
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ homepage="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="BSD"
 distfiles="ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=6948b02570cdfb89a8313675d4aa665405900e27423db408401473f30fc6e901
+checksum=36ce72f84ae4129f6cc66e33077a79d87b018ea7bf1dbc3d353604bf006f76d6
 
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config bison groff doxygen graphviz"
 makedepends="zlib-devel readline-devel>=6.3 libffi-devel libressl-devel
@@ -19,14 +19,12 @@ makedepends="zlib-devel readline-devel>=6.3 libffi-devel libressl-devel
 replaces="ruby-rdoc>=0 ruby-gems>=0 ruby-irb>=0"
 
 if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
-	hostmakedepends+=" ruby>=${version}"
+	hostmakedepends+=" ruby"
 fi
 
 pre_build() {
 	# Force getaddrinfo detection.
 	sed -e 's,\(checking_for("wide getaddrinfo") {try_\)run,\1link,' -i ext/socket/extconf.rb
-	# Fix for readline>=6.3
-	sed -e 's,(Function \*),,g' -i ext/readline/readline.c
 }
 
 ruby-devel-docs_package() {
@@ -36,7 +34,6 @@ ruby-devel-docs_package() {
 		vmove usr/share/doc
 	}
 }
-
 ruby-devel_package() {
 	depends="ruby-${version}_${revision}"
 	short_desc+=" - development files"
@@ -47,7 +44,6 @@ ruby-devel_package() {
 		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
 	}
 }
-
 ruby-ri_package() {
 	depends="ruby-${version}_${revision}"
 	short_desc="Ruby Interactive reference"