diff --git a/eclass/ruby-fakegem.eclass b/eclass/ruby-fakegem.eclass
index db3db300c023..4d9e657ebe57 100644
--- a/eclass/ruby-fakegem.eclass
+++ b/eclass/ruby-fakegem.eclass
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ ruby_fakegem_binwrapper() {
 
 		# Try to find out whether the package is going to install for
 		# one or multiple implementations; if we're installing for a
-		# *single* implementation, no need to use “/usr/bin/env ruby”
+		# *single* implementation, no need to use “/usr/bin/ruby”
 		# in the shebang, and we can actually avoid errors when
 		# calling the script by default.
 		local rubycmd=
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ ruby_fakegem_binwrapper() {
 				# if another implementation already arrived, then make
 				# it generic and break out of the loop. This ensures
 				# that we do at most two iterations.
-				rubycmd="${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/env ruby"
+				rubycmd="${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/ruby"
 				break
 			fi
 		done