openid/ruby-openid — pull request #61 by tobiashm (2013-10-15 14:41:56+00:00)
Title: No need to define String#starts_with? and #ends_with? as Ruby 1.8 support is deprecated.

The methods were introduced with Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.0, and since the library is now only targeted 1.9.2+ there is no need for this extra code.