diff --git a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/utils/encoding_helper.rb b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/utils/encoding_helper.rb
index 10442c168..f3996f5f5 100644
--- a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/utils/encoding_helper.rb
+++ b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/utils/encoding_helper.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 module Sentry
   module Utils
     module EncodingHelper
-      EMPTY_STRING = ""
       MALFORMED_STRING = "<malformed-string>"
 
       def self.encode_to_utf_8(value)