diff --git a/sysutils/rubygem-puppet_forge/Makefile b/sysutils/rubygem-puppet_forge/Makefile
index 077b8c08b0b0..971d951215c1 100644
--- a/sysutils/rubygem-puppet_forge/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/rubygem-puppet_forge/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	puppet_forge
-PORTVERSION=	2.2.8
+PORTVERSION=	2.2.9
 CATEGORIES=	sysutils rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
diff --git a/sysutils/rubygem-puppet_forge/distinfo b/sysutils/rubygem-puppet_forge/distinfo
index 69740166bf1e..baffa6e61adf 100644
--- a/sysutils/rubygem-puppet_forge/distinfo
+++ b/sysutils/rubygem-puppet_forge/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1510338737
-SHA256 (rubygem/puppet_forge-2.2.8.gem) = a53d622d8b6d3fa33155850d899ef42ea534cfa7f1ced7658074e661bae8b740
-SIZE (rubygem/puppet_forge-2.2.8.gem) = 772608
+TIMESTAMP = 1512841269
+SHA256 (rubygem/puppet_forge-2.2.9.gem) = 6a41d52ed06844c9637cb58abf10a47c35872fe1a9455fa0254e3c3e11521503
+SIZE (rubygem/puppet_forge-2.2.9.gem) = 772608
diff --git a/sysutils/rubygem-puppet_forge/files/patch-gemspec b/sysutils/rubygem-puppet_forge/files/patch-gemspec
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ec5ae955c41..000000000000
--- a/sysutils/rubygem-puppet_forge/files/patch-gemspec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- puppet_forge.gemspec.orig	2017-07-01 16:07:11 UTC
-+++ puppet_forge.gemspec
-@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
-     s.specification_version = 4
- 
-     if Gem::Version.new(Gem::VERSION) >= Gem::Version.new('1.2.0') then
--      s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<faraday>.freeze, ["~> 0.9.0"])
--      s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<faraday_middleware>.freeze, ["< 0.11.0", ">= 0.9.0"])
-+      s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<faraday>.freeze, ["~> 0.9"])
-+      s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<faraday_middleware>.freeze, [">= 0.9.0"])
-       s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<semantic_puppet>.freeze, ["~> 1.0"])
-       s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<minitar>.freeze, [">= 0"])
-       s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<gettext-setup>.freeze, ["~> 0.11"])