Provider::User: remove gecos#force_encoding existence check (ruby 1.8 specific, issue #2497)

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/provider/user.rb b/lib/chef/provider/user.rb
index e554dc7f2f..f6ac72448e 100644
--- a/lib/chef/provider/user.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/provider/user.rb
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ class Chef
           @current_resource.shell(user_info.shell)
           @current_resource.password(user_info.passwd)
 
-          if @new_resource.comment && user_info.gecos.respond_to?(:force_encoding)
+          if @new_resource.comment
             user_info.gecos.force_encoding(@new_resource.comment.encoding)
           end
           @current_resource.comment(user_info.gecos)
diff --git a/spec/unit/provider/user_spec.rb b/spec/unit/provider/user_spec.rb
index 44434794e7..381168647b 100644
--- a/spec/unit/provider/user_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/unit/provider/user_spec.rb
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ describe Chef::Provider::User do
       expect(@current_resource.username).to eq(@new_resource.username)
     end
 
-    it "should change the encoding of gecos to the encoding of the new resource", :ruby_gte_19_only do
+    it "should change the encoding of gecos to the encoding of the new resource" do
       @pw_user.gecos.force_encoding('ASCII-8BIT')
       @provider.load_current_resource
       expect(@provider.current_resource.comment.encoding).to eq(@new_resource.comment.encoding)