2 files changed, 3 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb
index fe27f45295..7271671908 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb
@@ -89,9 +89,6 @@ class Hash
 end
 
 class String
-  # 0x3000: fullwidth whitespace
-  NON_WHITESPACE_REGEXP = %r![^\s#{[0x3000].pack("U")}]!
-
   # A string is blank if it's empty or contains whitespaces only:
   #
   #   "".blank?                 # => true
@@ -100,12 +97,7 @@ class String
   #   " something here ".blank? # => false
   #
   def blank?
-    # 1.8 does not takes [:space:] properly
-    if encoding_aware?
-      self !~ /[^[:space:]]/
-    else
-      self !~ NON_WHITESPACE_REGEXP
-    end
+    self !~ /[^[:space:]]/
   end
 end
 
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/instance_variables.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/instance_variables.rb
index eda9694614..66caf9bec8 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/instance_variables.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/instance_variables.rb
@@ -23,11 +23,7 @@ class Object
   #   end
   #
   #   C.new(0, 1).instance_variable_names # => ["@y", "@x"]
-  if RUBY_VERSION >= '1.9'
-    def instance_variable_names
-      instance_variables.map { |var| var.to_s }
-    end
-  else
-    alias_method :instance_variable_names, :instance_variables
+  def instance_variable_names
+    instance_variables.map { |var| var.to_s }
   end
 end