diff --git a/dev-ruby/ruby-lsp/Manifest b/dev-ruby/ruby-lsp/Manifest
index eba7a11f80..e0f2a93e53 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/ruby-lsp/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ruby/ruby-lsp/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST ruby-lsp-0.23.11.tar.gz 27071970 BLAKE2B 0a86024a40db46670e57570f1047c02f59178388933beea372ce378794f8950aa5ba4272491b2e0fe3c9a55216880c368671fd33d3234527029c8a465b77d62b SHA512 f111192710c6603bb127bff546a3e84d4ef7a3c29823e1400ade475ecee22f1272123a44e86eac89e8dcae57f1584c6f40108b52a1718ff8562c2b7bb8279ad2
 DIST ruby-lsp-0.23.23.tar.gz 35014426 BLAKE2B 7baa50e4898b0d789956a7f786151dc7b11cc8e86d582bb4ce55b5840b319d7052eaec71c8d9786f07ca610db5104bbd5272b1426c25ca61fe8d44e3840fb952 SHA512 db09b0a6fd2c6b295c7635a910697e3b707bf1db1dbc03bfb9946816db7ad1826b51171a014fe9a47321960004f51edc0e4258e0cb0281e182574b7c377d8fbb
+DIST ruby-lsp-0.26.0.tar.gz 35037573 BLAKE2B 7e3746fed21e3787f88ac807304f303a4d5fd848428a49aa76e9e61169eba541dfcdf90671c9e466b80562744030817b9bf80fe1fae9ed67b425f2dbfebdbda0 SHA512 599e90083af068c7519951397c8890a5ae41244783bb42c4c7d5fb1b5baeaa4a5470290e13b4037425ffce6e50b980963a26e2bb4a4e615f75f2ef934d4f87a3
diff --git a/dev-ruby/ruby-lsp/ruby-lsp-0.26.0.ebuild b/dev-ruby/ruby-lsp/ruby-lsp-0.26.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..267931b520
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ruby/ruby-lsp/ruby-lsp-0.26.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Copyright 2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="${PN}.gemspec"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_BINDIR="exe" # 'bin' contains only testing functions
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRAINSTALL="static_docs VERSION"
+USE_RUBY="ruby31 ruby32 ruby33 ruby34"
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="An opinionated language server for Ruby"
+HOMEPAGE="https://shopify.github.io/ruby-lsp"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/Shopify/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+# TODO: if necessary create extra packages with test dependencies
+# currently tests would require many more gems/ebuilds
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_TEST="none"
+
+DEPEND+="
+	>=dev-ruby/prism-1.2 <dev-ruby/prism-2
+	>=dev-ruby/rbs-3 <dev-ruby/rbs-5
+	=dev-ruby/language_server-protocol-3.17*
+"
+
+each_fakegem_test() {
+	ewarn "Tests disabled due requiring ~10 extra gems to be installed, most of which do not have ebuilds"
+	default
+}