1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/test/ruby/test_system.rb b/test/ruby/test_system.rb
index 24b6a0d235..358fa54ef8 100644
--- a/test/ruby/test_system.rb
+++ b/test/ruby/test_system.rb
@@ -3,17 +3,6 @@ require 'tmpdir'
 require_relative 'envutil'
 
 class TestSystem < Test::Unit::TestCase
-  def valid_syntax?(code, fname)
-    code = code.dup.force_encoding("ascii-8bit")
-    code.sub!(/\A(?:\xef\xbb\xbf)?(\s*\#.*$)*(\n)?/n) {
-      "#$&#{"\n" if $1 && !$2}BEGIN{throw tag, :ok}\n"
-    }
-    code.force_encoding("us-ascii")
-    catch {|tag| eval(code, binding, fname, 0)}
-  rescue SyntaxError
-    false
-  end
-
   def test_system
     ruby = EnvUtil.rubybin
     assert_equal("foobar\n", `echo foobar`)
@@ -99,14 +88,6 @@ class TestSystem < Test::Unit::TestCase
     }
   end
 
-  def test_syntax
-    assert_nothing_raised(Exception) do
-      for script in Dir[File.expand_path("../../../{lib,sample,ext,test}/**/*.rb", __FILE__)].sort
-        assert(valid_syntax?(IO::read(script), script))
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
   def test_empty_evstr
     assert_equal("", eval('"#{}"', nil, __FILE__, __LINE__), "[ruby-dev:25113]")
   end