2 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/test/cases/adapters/sqlite3/sqlite3_adapter_test.rb b/activerecord/test/cases/adapters/sqlite3/sqlite3_adapter_test.rb
index 97b56d38d7..328b2adfab 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/cases/adapters/sqlite3/sqlite3_adapter_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/cases/adapters/sqlite3/sqlite3_adapter_test.rb
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@ module ActiveRecord
       end
 
       def test_column_types
-        return skip('only test encoding on 1.9') unless "<3".encoding_aware?
-
         owner = Owner.create!(:name => "hello".encode('ascii-8bit'))
         owner.reload
         select = Owner.columns.map { |c| "typeof(#{c.name})" }.join ', '
diff --git a/activerecord/test/cases/schema_dumper_test.rb b/activerecord/test/cases/schema_dumper_test.rb
index 5c3a78688e..dd6d7e52d5 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/cases/schema_dumper_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/cases/schema_dumper_test.rb
@@ -13,10 +13,8 @@ class SchemaDumperTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
     @stream.string
   end
 
-  if "string".encoding_aware?
-    def test_magic_comment
-      assert_match "# encoding: #{@stream.external_encoding.name}", standard_dump
-    end
+  def test_magic_comment
+    assert_match "# encoding: #{@stream.external_encoding.name}", standard_dump
   end
 
   def test_schema_dump