diff --git a/dev-ruby/net-http-persistent/net-http-persistent-2.9.4-r2.ebuild b/dev-ruby/net-http-persistent/net-http-persistent-2.9.4-r2.ebuild
index 6231e4c039cf8..cdcadb22d4320 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/net-http-persistent/net-http-persistent-2.9.4-r2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/net-http-persistent/net-http-persistent-2.9.4-r2.ebuild
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
 
-USE_RUBY="ruby20 ruby21 ruby22 ruby23"
+USE_RUBY="ruby21 ruby22 ruby23 ruby24"
 
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_DOC="docs"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_DOC="rdoc"
 RUBY_FAKEGEM_DOCDIR="doc"
 
 RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="History.txt README.rdoc"
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm ~ppc ~ppc64 x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x86-macos ~x86-solaris"
 IUSE="doc test"
 
-ruby_add_bdepend "doc? ( dev-ruby/hoe )
+ruby_add_bdepend "
 	test? ( dev-ruby/hoe dev-ruby/minitest )"
 
 all_ruby_prepare() {