diff --git a/lib/redis_failover/util.rb b/lib/redis_failover/util.rb
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/lib/redis_failover/util.rb
+++ b/lib/redis_failover/util.rb
@@ -46,20 +46,12 @@ module RedisFailover
     end
 
     def encode(data)
-      if MultiJson.respond_to?(:dump)
-        MultiJson.dump(data)
-      else
-        MultiJson.encode(data)
-      end
+      MultiJson.encode(data)
     end
 
     def decode(data)
       return unless data
-      if MultiJson.respond_to?(:adapter)
-        MultiJson.load(data)
-      else
-        MultiJson.decode(data)
-      end
+      MultiJson.decode(data)
     end
   end
 end
remove multi_json logic, latest release handles this for us