diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index abcfd7db5c..7ed24d1208 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Aug 21 00:08:01 2009  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* lib/rdoc/ri/paths.rb (RDoc::RI::Paths): Gem::Enable has been obsolete.
+
 Thu Aug 20 23:56:15 2009  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* io.c (rb_sysopen): moved sysopen_struct from rb_sysopen_internal.
diff --git a/lib/rdoc/ri/paths.rb b/lib/rdoc/ri/paths.rb
index bce71b46f0..562720c379 100644
--- a/lib/rdoc/ri/paths.rb
+++ b/lib/rdoc/ri/paths.rb
@@ -52,8 +52,7 @@ module RDoc::RI::Paths
   HOMEDIR = (File.expand_path("~/.#{rdoc}") rescue nil)
 
   begin
-    require 'rubygems' unless defined?(Gem) and defined?(Gem::Enable) and
-                              Gem::Enable
+    require 'rubygems' unless defined?(Gem)
 
     # HACK dup'd from Gem.latest_partials and friends
     all_paths = []