diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index a0a649fe..7e7811a9 100755
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -7,37 +7,7 @@
 #
 # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 
-require 'rubygems'
-require 'fileutils'
-require 'net/http'
-require 'optparse'
-require 'digest'
-require 'open-uri'
-require 'bundler/setup'
 require 'bundler/gem_tasks'
-require 'rake/testtask'
-
-Rake::TestTask.new do |t|
-  t.verbose = false
-  t.warning = false
-  t.ruby_opts = []
-  t.libs << 'test'
-
-  gem_file = ENV['BUNDLE_GEMFILE']&.split('/')&.last
-
-  case gem_file
-  when 'unit.gemfile'
-    t.test_files = FileList['test/api/*_test.rb'] +
-                   FileList['test/solarwinds_apm/*_test.rb'] +
-                   FileList['test/opentelemetry/*_test.rb'] +
-                   FileList['test/noop/*_test.rb'] +
-                   FileList['test/support/*_test.rb'] +
-                   FileList['test/sampling/*_test.rb'] -
-                   FileList['test/opentelemetry/otlp_processor_*_test.rb']
-  end
-end
-
-################ Docker Task ################
 
 desc "Run an official docker ruby image with the specified tag. The test suite is launched if
 runtests is set to true, else a shell session is started for interactive test runs. The platform
@@ -121,9 +91,7 @@ task :rubocop do
   _arg1, arg2 = ARGV
 
   rubocop_file = "#{__dir__}/rubocop_result.txt"
-  FileUtils.rm_f(rubocop_file)
-  new_file = File.new(rubocop_file, 'w')
-  new_file.close
+  File.write(rubocop_file, '')
 
   `bundle exec rubocop --auto-correct` if arg2 == 'auto-safe'
   `bundle exec rubocop --auto-correct-all` if arg2 == 'auto-all'