diff --git a/packages/ruby/tests/default_encoding_isutf8.sh b/packages/ruby/tests/default_encoding_isutf8.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..87796c157
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/ruby/tests/default_encoding_isutf8.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+assert_equals '#<Encoding:UTF-8>' `ruby -e 'p Encoding.default_external'`
diff --git a/packages/ruby/tests/extension_modules_installed.sh b/packages/ruby/tests/extension_modules_installed.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d04b61c42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/ruby/tests/extension_modules_installed.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+ruby -e "require 'readline'"
+ruby -e "require 'openssl'"
diff --git a/scripts/test-runner.sh b/scripts/test-runner.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e48681616
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/test-runner.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
+
+if [ $# != 1 ]; then
+        echo "Specify package to run tests for as only argument"
+        exit 1
+fi
+
+PACKAGE=$1
+TEST_DIR=packages/$PACKAGE/tests
+
+if [ ! -d $TEST_DIR ]; then
+        echo "ERROR: No tests folder for package $PACKAGE"
+        exit 1
+fi
+
+NUM_TESTS=0
+NUM_FAILURES=0
+
+for TEST_SCRIPT in $TEST_DIR/*; do
+        test -t 1 && printf "\033[32m"
+        echo "Running test ${TEST_SCRIPT}..."
+        (( NUM_TESTS += 1 ))
+        test -t 1 && printf "\033[31m"
+        (
+                assert_equals() {
+                        FIRST=$1
+                        SECOND=$2
+                        if [ "$FIRST" != "$SECOND" ]; then
+                                echo "assertion failed - expected '$FIRST', got '$SECOND'"
+                                exit 1
+                        fi
+                }
+                set -e -u
+                . $TEST_SCRIPT
+        )
+        if [ $? != 0 ]; then
+                (( NUM_FAILURES += 1 ))
+        fi
+        test -t 1 && printf "\033[0m"
+done
+
+echo "$NUM_TESTS tests run - $NUM_FAILURES failure(s)"