diff --git a/bindings/ruby/ext/ruby_whisper_context.c b/bindings/ruby/ext/ruby_whisper_context.c
index bc0c6e99194..1b89895796b 100644
--- a/bindings/ruby/ext/ruby_whisper_context.c
+++ b/bindings/ruby/ext/ruby_whisper_context.c
@@ -118,22 +118,34 @@ ruby_whisper_normalize_model_path(VALUE model_path)
  *   new("base.en") -> Whisper::Context
  *   new("path/to/model.bin") -> Whisper::Context
  *   new(Whisper::Model::URI.new("https://example.net/uri/of/model.bin")) -> Whisper::Context
+ *   new("base.en", flash_attn: false) -> Whisper::Context
  */
 static VALUE
 ruby_whisper_initialize(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
 {
   ruby_whisper *rw;
-  VALUE whisper_model_file_path;
+  VALUE whisper_model_file_path, options;
+  VALUE flash_attn_opt;
 
   // TODO: we can support init from buffer here too maybe another ruby object to expose
-  rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "01", &whisper_model_file_path);
+  rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "01:", &whisper_model_file_path, &options);
   TypedData_Get_Struct(self, ruby_whisper, &ruby_whisper_type, rw);
 
   whisper_model_file_path = ruby_whisper_normalize_model_path(whisper_model_file_path);
   if (!rb_respond_to(whisper_model_file_path, id_to_s)) {
     rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError, "Expected file path to model to initialize Whisper::Context");
   }
-  rw->context = whisper_init_from_file_with_params(StringValueCStr(whisper_model_file_path), whisper_context_default_params());
+
+  struct whisper_context_params cparams = whisper_context_default_params();
+
+  if (!NIL_P(options)) {
+    flash_attn_opt = rb_hash_aref(options, ID2SYM(rb_intern("flash_attn")));
+    if (!NIL_P(flash_attn_opt)) {
+      cparams.flash_attn = (flash_attn_opt == Qtrue);
+    }
+  }
+
+  rw->context = whisper_init_from_file_with_params(StringValueCStr(whisper_model_file_path), cparams);
   if (rw->context == NULL) {
     rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError, "error: failed to initialize whisper context");
   }
diff --git a/bindings/ruby/test/test_whisper.rb b/bindings/ruby/test/test_whisper.rb
index 12b82a8de09..9bc04062f52 100644
--- a/bindings/ruby/test/test_whisper.rb
+++ b/bindings/ruby/test/test_whisper.rb
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def test_transcribe_non_parallel
   end
 
   def test_transcribe_n_processors
-    @whisper = Whisper::Context.new("base.en")
+    @whisper = Whisper::Context.new("base.en", flash_attn: false)
     params  = Whisper::Params.new
 
     @whisper.transcribe(AUDIO, params, n_processors: 4) {|text|