diff --git a/rdf.gemspec b/rdf.gemspec
index f971584c..389f3376 100755
--- a/rdf.gemspec
+++ b/rdf.gemspec
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
   gem.add_runtime_dependency     'logger',             '~> 1.5'
   gem.add_runtime_dependency     'ostruct',            '~> 0.6'
   gem.add_development_dependency 'base64',             '~> 0.2'
-  gem.add_development_dependency 'fiddle',             '~> 1.1'
   gem.add_development_dependency 'rdf-spec',           '~> 3.3'
   gem.add_development_dependency 'rdf-turtle',         '~> 3.3'
   gem.add_development_dependency 'rdf-vocab',          '~> 3.3'