diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/default-v4.nix b/pkgs/development/node-packages/default-v4.nix
index 38f39fe917b1..5d724034201b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/default-v4.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/default-v4.nix
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ nodePackages // {
     '';
   });
   
-  wring = nodePackages.phantomjs.override (oldAttrs: {
+  wring = nodePackages.wring.override (oldAttrs: {
     buildInputs = oldAttrs.buildInputs ++ [ pkgs.phantomjs2 ];
   });
   
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/wring/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/wring/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 038456f82c5b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/wring/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, callPackage, makeWrapper, nodejs, phantomjs2 }:
-
-let
-  self = (
-    callPackage ../../../top-level/node-packages.nix {
-      generated = callPackage ./node-packages.nix { inherit self; };
-      overrides = {
-        "wring" = {
-          buildInputs = [ makeWrapper phantomjs2 ];
-
-          postInstall = ''
-            wrapProgram "$out/bin/wring" \
-              --prefix PATH : ${phantomjs2}/bin
-          '';
-
-          meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-            description = "Command-line tool for extracting content from webpages using CSS Selectors, XPath, and JS expressions";
-            homepage = https://github.com/osener/wring;
-            license = licenses.mit;
-            platforms = platforms.darwin ++ platforms.linux;
-            maintainers = [ maintainers.osener ];
-          };
-        };
-      };
-    });
-in self.wring
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/wring/node-packages.json b/pkgs/tools/text/wring/node-packages.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c0e17129286..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/wring/node-packages.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-[ "wring" ]
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/wring/node-packages.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/wring/node-packages.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index b3761bd33cb6..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/wring/node-packages.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-{ self, fetchurl, fetchgit ? null, lib }:
-
-{
-  by-spec."wring"."*" =
-    self.by-version."wring"."1.0.0";
-  by-version."wring"."1.0.0" = self.buildNodePackage {
-    name = "wring-1.0.0";
-    version = "1.0.0";
-    bin = true;
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "http://registry.npmjs.org/wring/-/wring-1.0.0.tgz";
-      name = "wring-1.0.0.tgz";
-      sha1 = "3d8ebe894545bf0b42946fdc84c61e37ae657ce1";
-    };
-    deps = {
-    };
-    optionalDependencies = {
-    };
-    peerDependencies = [];
-    os = [ ];
-    cpu = [ ];
-  };
-  "wring" = self.by-version."wring"."1.0.0";
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9f6870697d1c..351d96a35ae0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4115,7 +4115,7 @@ in
 
   wml = callPackage ../development/web/wml { };
 
-  wring = callPackage ../tools/text/wring { };
+  wring = nodePackages.wring;
 
   wrk = callPackage ../tools/networking/wrk { };