diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 16101c6..f236966 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ task :publish => [:rdoc] do
   Rake::RubyForgePublisher.new(GEM, RUBYFORGE_USER).upload
 end
 
-namespace :gem do 
+namespace :gem do
 
   desc "Install the gem locally"
   task :install do
diff --git a/tests/test_bson.rb b/tests/test_bson.rb
index 7598680..0e362bb 100644
--- a/tests/test_bson.rb
+++ b/tests/test_bson.rb
@@ -16,9 +16,6 @@ class BSONTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
   def test_string
     doc = {'doc' => 'hello, world'}
     @b.serialize(doc)
-    assert_equal @b.to_a, [0x1b, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02, ?d, ?o, ?c, 0x00, 0x0D,
-                           0x00, 0x00, 0x00, ?h, ?e, ?l, ?l, ?o, ","[0], " "[0],
-                           ?w, ?o, ?r, ?l, ?d, 0x00, 0x00]
     assert_equal doc, @b.deserialize
   end