4 files changed, 4 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/libxml.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/libxml.rb
index cde2967132..d849cdfa6b 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/libxml.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/libxml.rb
@@ -14,11 +14,9 @@ module ActiveSupport
         data = StringIO.new(data || "")
       end
 
-      char = data.getc
-      if char.nil?
+      if data.eof?
         {}
       else
-        data.ungetc(char)
         LibXML::XML::Parser.io(data).parse.to_hash
       end
     end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/libxmlsax.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/libxmlsax.rb
index 8a43b05b17..f3d485da2f 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/libxmlsax.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/libxmlsax.rb
@@ -65,12 +65,9 @@ module ActiveSupport
         data = StringIO.new(data || "")
       end
 
-      char = data.getc
-      if char.nil?
+      if data.eof?
         {}
       else
-        data.ungetc(char)
-
         LibXML::XML::Error.set_handler(&LibXML::XML::Error::QUIET_HANDLER)
         parser = LibXML::XML::SaxParser.io(data)
         document = document_class.new
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogiri.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogiri.rb
index 4c2be3f3ec..63466c08b2 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogiri.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogiri.rb
@@ -19,11 +19,9 @@ module ActiveSupport
         data = StringIO.new(data || "")
       end
 
-      char = data.getc
-      if char.nil?
+      if data.eof?
         {}
       else
-        data.ungetc(char)
         doc = Nokogiri::XML(data)
         raise doc.errors.first if doc.errors.length > 0
         doc.to_hash
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)