1 files changed, 14 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/spec/ruby/core/string/new_spec.rb b/spec/ruby/core/string/new_spec.rb
index b429ac48d2..aadf1e0e46 100644
--- a/spec/ruby/core/string/new_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/ruby/core/string/new_spec.rb
@@ -1,25 +1,21 @@
-require File.expand_path('../../../spec_helper', __FILE__)
-require File.expand_path('../fixtures/classes', __FILE__)
+require_relative '../../spec_helper'
+require_relative 'fixtures/classes'
 
 describe "String.new" do
   it "returns an instance of String" do
     str = String.new
-    str.should be_an_instance_of(String)
+    str.should.instance_of?(String)
   end
 
-  ruby_version_is "2.3" do
-    it "accepts an encoding argument" do
-      xA4xA2 = [0xA4, 0xA2].pack('CC').force_encoding 'utf-8'
-      str = String.new(xA4xA2, encoding: 'euc-jp')
-      str.encoding.should == Encoding::EUC_JP
-    end
+  it "accepts an encoding argument" do
+    xA4xA2 = [0xA4, 0xA2].pack('CC').force_encoding 'utf-8'
+    str = String.new(xA4xA2, encoding: 'euc-jp')
+    str.encoding.should == Encoding::EUC_JP
   end
 
-  ruby_version_is "2.4" do
-    it "accepts a capacity argument" do
-      String.new("", capacity: 100_000).should == ""
-      String.new("abc", capacity: 100_000).should == "abc"
-    end
+  it "accepts a capacity argument" do
+    String.new("", capacity: 100_000).should == ""
+    String.new("abc", capacity: 100_000).should == "abc"
   end
 
   it "returns a fully-formed String" do
@@ -32,7 +28,7 @@ describe "String.new" do
   it "returns a new string given a string argument" do
     str1 = "test"
     str = String.new(str1)
-    str.should be_an_instance_of(String)
+    str.should.instance_of?(String)
     str.should == str1
     str << "more"
     str.should == "testmore"
@@ -40,7 +36,7 @@ describe "String.new" do
 
   it "returns an instance of a subclass" do
     a = StringSpecs::MyString.new("blah")
-    a.should be_an_instance_of(StringSpecs::MyString)
+    a.should.instance_of?(StringSpecs::MyString)
     a.should == "blah"
   end
 
@@ -55,8 +51,8 @@ describe "String.new" do
   end
 
   it "raises TypeError on inconvertible object" do
-    lambda { String.new 5 }.should raise_error(TypeError)
-    lambda { String.new nil }.should raise_error(TypeError)
+    -> { String.new 5 }.should.raise(TypeError)
+    -> { String.new nil }.should.raise(TypeError)
   end
 
   it "returns a binary String" do