diff --git a/shells/Makefile b/shells/Makefile
index 363e82ec762e..ee29d0340b4f 100644
--- a/shells/Makefile
+++ b/shells/Makefile
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
     SUBDIR += pear-PHP_Shell
     SUBDIR += psh
     SUBDIR += rc
+    SUBDIR += rubygem-shellwords
     SUBDIR += rush
     SUBDIR += sash
     SUBDIR += scponly
diff --git a/shells/rubygem-shellwords/Makefile b/shells/rubygem-shellwords/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c1b9de6a8c5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shells/rubygem-shellwords/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Created by: Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>
+# $FreeBSD$
+
+PORTNAME=	shellwords
+PORTVERSION=	0.1.0
+CATEGORIES=	shells rubygems
+MASTER_SITES=	RG
+
+MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	Manipulate strings with word parsing rules of UNIX Bourne shell
+
+LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE RUBY
+LICENSE_COMB=	dual
+LICENSE_FILE_BSD2CLAUSE=${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
+
+USES=		gem
+USE_RUBY=	yes
+
+NO_ARCH=	yes
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/shells/rubygem-shellwords/distinfo b/shells/rubygem-shellwords/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..347707f632a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shells/rubygem-shellwords/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+TIMESTAMP = 1609598831
+SHA256 (rubygem/shellwords-0.1.0.gem) = e922b0b8fe8a469d19b35e11cddbc940b2ff72e8af1c32db1944a3fece00742e
+SIZE (rubygem/shellwords-0.1.0.gem) = 9728
diff --git a/shells/rubygem-shellwords/pkg-descr b/shells/rubygem-shellwords/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7a6e65006c38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shells/rubygem-shellwords/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Shellwords manipulates strings according to the word parsing rules of the UNIX
+Bourne shell.
+
+The shellwords() function was originally a port of shellwords.pl, but modified
+to conform to the Shell & Utilities volume of the IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, 2016
+Edition.
+
+WWW: https://github.com/ruby/shellwords