diff --git a/config/software/ruby.rb b/config/software/ruby.rb
index c9d6f8688..6ee510959 100644
--- a/config/software/ruby.rb
+++ b/config/software/ruby.rb
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
   # Here we patch the Ruby Win32/Reolv.rb file to make reloading the Win32::Registry class
   # conditional and therefore prevent the monkeypatch from being overwritten.
   if windows? && version.satisfies?("~> 3.0.0")
-    patch source: "ruby-win32_resolv.patch", plevel: 1, env: patch_env
+    patch source: "ruby-win32_resolv.patch", plevel: 0, env: patch_env
   end
 
   # RHEL6 has a base compiler that does not support -fstack-protector-strong, but we