diff --git a/dev-ruby/racc/racc-1.4.14.ebuild b/dev-ruby/racc/racc-1.4.14.ebuild
index 5ae06002a66aa..4688ee338444d 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/racc/racc-1.4.14.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/racc/racc-1.4.14.ebuild
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
 IUSE="doc test"
 
+ruby_add_rdepend "virtual/ruby-ssl"
+
 ruby_add_bdepend "dev-ruby/rake
 	test? ( >=dev-ruby/minitest-4.0:0 )"
 
diff --git a/dev-ruby/racc/racc-1.4.16-r1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/racc/racc-1.4.16-r1.ebuild
index b1180f7dcb837..c3dff66980302 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/racc/racc-1.4.16-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/racc/racc-1.4.16-r1.ebuild
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
 IUSE="doc test"
 
+ruby_add_rdepend "virtual/ruby-ssl"
+
 ruby_add_bdepend "dev-ruby/rake
 	test? ( dev-ruby/minitest )"