Merge pull request #1151 from cremno/simplify-some-string-creations

Simplify some string creations

3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/rack/chunked.rb b/lib/rack/chunked.rb
index 4b8f270e..3076931c 100644
--- a/lib/rack/chunked.rb
+++ b/lib/rack/chunked.rb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ module Rack
           size = chunk.bytesize
           next if size == 0
 
-          chunk = chunk.dup.force_encoding(Encoding::BINARY)
+          chunk = chunk.b
           yield [size.to_s(16), term, chunk, term].join
         end
         yield TAIL
diff --git a/lib/rack/mock.rb b/lib/rack/mock.rb
index afc855e2..f3321772 100644
--- a/lib/rack/mock.rb
+++ b/lib/rack/mock.rb
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ module Rack
         end
       end
 
-      empty_str = String.new.force_encoding(Encoding::ASCII_8BIT)
+      empty_str = String.new
       opts[:input] ||= empty_str
       if String === opts[:input]
         rack_input = StringIO.new(opts[:input])
diff --git a/lib/rack/multipart/parser.rb b/lib/rack/multipart/parser.rb
index d8cb3670..e2e821ac 100644
--- a/lib/rack/multipart/parser.rb
+++ b/lib/rack/multipart/parser.rb
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ module Rack
             klass = TempfilePart
             @open_files += 1
           else
-            body = ''.force_encoding(Encoding::ASCII_8BIT)
+            body = String.new
             klass = BufferPart
           end
 
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ module Rack
       attr_reader :state
 
       def initialize(boundary, tempfile, bufsize, query_parser)
-        @buf            = "".force_encoding(Encoding::ASCII_8BIT)
+        @buf            = String.new
 
         @query_parser   = query_parser
         @params         = query_parser.make_params