diff --git a/configs/components/_base-ruby-augeas.rb b/configs/components/_base-ruby-augeas.rb
index e22ec78ab..47ffc5c3c 100644
--- a/configs/components/_base-ruby-augeas.rb
+++ b/configs/components/_base-ruby-augeas.rb
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 # load it with instance_eval. See ruby-x.y-augeas.rb configs.
 #
 
+pkg.add_source("file://resources/patches/augeas/ruby-augeas-0.5.0-patch_c_extension.patch")
+
+# We can remove the below patch after https://github.com/hercules-team/ruby-augeas/pull/17 is merged.
+pkg.add_source("file://resources/patches/augeas/ruby-augeas-0.5.0-patch_remove_unused_parameter.patch")
 
 # These can be overridden by the including component.
 ruby_version ||= settings[:ruby_version]
@@ -10,9 +14,9 @@
 ruby_dir ||= settings[:ruby_dir]
 ruby_bindir ||= settings[:ruby_bindir]
 
-pkg.version "0.6.0"
-pkg.md5sum "3c2a13b748300b5a984bab9a30e74d0f"
-pkg.url "https://github.com/hercules-team/ruby-augeas/releases/download/release-#{pkg.get_version}/ruby-augeas-#{pkg.get_version}.tgz"
+pkg.version "0.5.0"
+pkg.md5sum "a132eace43ce13ccd059e22c0b1188ac"
+pkg.url "http://download.augeas.net/ruby/ruby-augeas-#{pkg.get_version}.tgz"
 pkg.mirror "#{settings[:buildsources_url]}/ruby-augeas-#{pkg.get_version}.tgz"
 
 pkg.build_requires "ruby-#{ruby_version}"
@@ -71,6 +75,10 @@
 
 pkg.build do
   build_commands = []
+  if ruby_version =~ /^3/
+    build_commands << "#{platform.patch} --strip=2 --fuzz=0 --ignore-whitespace --no-backup-if-mismatch < ../ruby-augeas-0.5.0-patch_c_extension.patch"
+  end
+  build_commands << "#{platform.patch} --strip=2 --fuzz=0 --ignore-whitespace --no-backup-if-mismatch < ../ruby-augeas-0.5.0-patch_remove_unused_parameter.patch"
   build_commands << "#{ruby} ext/augeas/extconf.rb"
   build_commands << "#{platform[:make]} -e -j$(shell expr $(shell #{platform[:num_cores]}) + 1)"
 
diff --git a/resources/patches/augeas/ruby-augeas-0.5.0-patch_c_extension.patch b/resources/patches/augeas/ruby-augeas-0.5.0-patch_c_extension.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7b73f8eb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/patches/augeas/ruby-augeas-0.5.0-patch_c_extension.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/ext/augeas/_augeas.c b/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/ext/augeas/_augeas.c
+index 95d9e05024..7aac0eb96d 100644
+--- a/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/ext/augeas/_augeas.c
++++ b/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/ext/augeas/_augeas.c
+@@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ void Init__augeas() {
+ 
+     /* Define the ruby class */
+     c_augeas = rb_define_class("Augeas", rb_cObject) ;
++        rb_undef_alloc_func(c_augeas);
+ 
+     /* Constants for enum aug_flags */
+ #define DEF_AUG_FLAG(name) \
diff --git a/resources/patches/augeas/ruby-augeas-0.5.0-patch_remove_unused_parameter.patch b/resources/patches/augeas/ruby-augeas-0.5.0-patch_remove_unused_parameter.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..416ac7b11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/patches/augeas/ruby-augeas-0.5.0-patch_remove_unused_parameter.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/ext/augeas/_augeas.c b/ext/augeas/_augeas.c
+index f9b49d1..7ef0d7d 100644
+--- a/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/ext/augeas/_augeas.c
++++ b/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/ext/augeas/_augeas.c
+@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ VALUE augeas_mv(VALUE s, VALUE src, VALUE dst) {
+  *
+  * Remove path and all its children. Returns the number of entries removed
+  */
+-VALUE augeas_rm(VALUE s, VALUE path, VALUE sibling) {
++VALUE augeas_rm(VALUE s, VALUE path) {
+     augeas *aug = aug_handle(s);
+     const char *cpath = StringValueCStr(path) ;