diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bcee27d960..d8abce0ae5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Mon Sep  2 14:01:00 2013  Charlie Somerville  <charliesome@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* test/rake/test_rake_rules.rb: add space after string literal to
+	  prevent conflict with string options syntax "foo"opts
+
+	* test/rss/rss-assertions.rb: ditto
+
 Mon Sep  2 12:28:38 2013  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
 
 	* test/ruby/test_bignum.rb (test_interrupt_during_to_s): Disable it
diff --git a/test/rake/test_rake_rules.rb b/test/rake/test_rake_rules.rb
index 3f6e352322..664aa983e5 100644
--- a/test/rake/test_rake_rules.rb
+++ b/test/rake/test_rake_rules.rb
@@ -298,9 +298,9 @@ class TestRakeRules < Rake::TestCase
     actions = []
     create_file("abc.xml")
     rule '.y' => '.xml' do actions << 'y' end
-    rule '.c' => '.y' do actions << 'c'end
-    rule '.o' => '.c' do actions << 'o'end
-    rule '.exe' => '.o' do actions << 'exe'end
+    rule '.c' => '.y' do actions << 'c' end
+    rule '.o' => '.c' do actions << 'o' end
+    rule '.exe' => '.o' do actions << 'exe' end
     Task["abc.exe"].invoke
     assert_equal ['y', 'c', 'o', 'exe'], actions
   end
diff --git a/test/rss/rss-assertions.rb b/test/rss/rss-assertions.rb
index 090980a650..5763a55eb1 100644
--- a/test/rss/rss-assertions.rb
+++ b/test/rss/rss-assertions.rb
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ EOA
       _wrap_assertion do
         [nil, "text", "html"].each do |type|
           attr = ""
-          attr = " type=\"#{type}\""if type
+          attr = " type=\"#{type}\"" if type
           assert_parse(generator.call(<<-EOA), :nothing_raised)
   <#{tag_name}#{attr}/>
 EOA