diff --git a/History.txt b/History.txt
index 1899022..6475480 100644
--- a/History.txt
+++ b/History.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
   * Add #http_accept for including MIME type HTTP "Accept" headers (Ryan Briones)
   * Add #header to support inclusion of custom HTTP headers (Ryan Briones)
   * Consider response codes 200-499 as successful enough to not raise a Webrat error (David Leal)
-  * Add Webrat.root method for cross-framework support (Krzysztof Zylawy)
   * Add support for clicking areas of an image map (Alex Lang)
   * Support relative links, including href="?foo=bar" (Kyle Hargraves)
   * Separated Rails-specific code from the Webrat core to make it easier to use Webrat with other environments
diff --git a/lib/webrat.rb b/lib/webrat.rb
index 39ef24a..908a00a 100644
--- a/lib/webrat.rb
+++ b/lib/webrat.rb
@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@ module Webrat
   end
 
   VERSION = '0.3.2'
-  
-  def self.root #:nodoc:
-    defined?(RAILS_ROOT) ? RAILS_ROOT : Merb.root
-  end
 
   def self.require_xml
     if on_java?