1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogirisax.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogirisax.rb
index 7388bea5d8..54e15e6a5f 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogirisax.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogirisax.rb
@@ -71,11 +71,9 @@ module ActiveSupport
         data = StringIO.new(data || "")
       end
 
-      char = data.getc
-      if char.nil?
+      if data.eof?
         {}
       else
-        data.ungetc(char)
         document = document_class.new
         parser = Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Parser.new(document)
         parser.parse(data)