diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7f5d9aabfb..f188d85eef 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed Mar 19 20:25:40 2008  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* dir.c (Init_Dir): define inspect method.  [ruby-core:15960]
+
 Wed Mar 19 14:59:12 2008  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* misc/ruby-style.el (ruby-style-{case,label}-indent): fix for labels
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 0dd12ffd7d..684e5a0318 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -1970,6 +1970,7 @@ Init_Dir()
 
     rb_define_method(rb_cDir,"initialize", dir_initialize, 1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cDir,"path", dir_path, 0);
+    rb_define_method(rb_cDir,"inspect", dir_inspect, 0);
     rb_define_method(rb_cDir,"read", dir_read, 0);
     rb_define_method(rb_cDir,"each", dir_each, 0);
     rb_define_method(rb_cDir,"rewind", dir_rewind, 0);