diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 149ac7f66f..d5c50dc88d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -14,4 +14,5 @@
 /lib/rdoc/markdown/literals.rb
 /pkg
 /tmp
+/doc
 Gemfile.lock
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index b951ef8f0e..2134250785 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ RDoc::Task.new do |doc|
   doc.main = 'README.rdoc'
   doc.title = "rdoc #{RDoc::VERSION} Documentation"
   doc.rdoc_dir = '_site' # for github pages
-  doc.rdoc_files = FileList.new %w[lib/**/*.rb *.rdoc doc/rdoc/markup_reference.rb] - PARSER_FILES
+  doc.rdoc_files = FileList.new %w[lib/**/*.rb *.rdoc misc/markup_reference.rb] - PARSER_FILES
 end
 
 task "coverage" do
diff --git a/bin/console b/bin/console
index 2090c32bd8..0fb268ec27 100755
--- a/bin/console
+++ b/bin/console
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ require 'bundler/setup'
 require 'rdoc'
 
 # This is the easy way to prepare various kinds of RDoc objects.
-require_relative '../doc/rdoc/markup_reference'
+require_relative '../misc/markup_reference'
 
 require 'irb'
 IRB.start(__FILE__)
diff --git a/doc/rdoc/markup_reference.rb b/misc/markup_reference.rb
similarity index 100%
rename from doc/rdoc/markup_reference.rb
rename to misc/markup_reference.rb