diff --git a/lib/freedom_patches/active_record_relation.rb b/lib/freedom_patches/active_record_relation.rb
index ab5cb77ea..be6ca5a53 100644
--- a/lib/freedom_patches/active_record_relation.rb
+++ b/lib/freedom_patches/active_record_relation.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-unless Rails.version =~ /^4/
+unless rails4?
   module ActiveRecord
     class Relation
       # Patch Rails 3 ActiveRecord::Relation to noop on Rails 4 references
diff --git a/lib/freedom_patches/ar_result.rb b/lib/freedom_patches/ar_result.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 99e38fe8d..000000000
--- a/lib/freedom_patches/ar_result.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-#see: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/12065
-if rails4?
-  module ActiveRecord
-    class Result
-      private
-      def hash_rows
-        @hash_rows ||=
-          begin
-            # We freeze the strings to prevent them getting duped when
-            # used as keys in ActiveRecord::Base's @attributes hash
-            columns = @columns.map { |c| c.dup.freeze }
-            @rows.map { |row|
-              # In the past we used Hash[columns.zip(row)]
-              #  though elegant, the verbose way is much more efficient
-              #  both time and memory wise cause it avoids a big array allocation
-              #  this method is called a lot and needs to be micro optimised
-              hash = {}
-
-              index = 0
-              length = columns.length
-
-              while index < length
-                hash[columns[index]] = row[index]
-                index += 1
-              end
-
-              hash
-            }
-          end
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/freedom_patches/join_dependency.rb b/lib/freedom_patches/join_dependency.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index a88d575bb..000000000
--- a/lib/freedom_patches/join_dependency.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# see PR: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/12185
-#
-class ActiveRecord::Associations::JoinDependency::JoinPart
-
-  def extract_record(row)
-    # Used to be: Hash[column_names_with_alias.map{|cn, an| [cn, row[an]]}]
-    #  that is fairly inefficient cause all the values are first copied
-    #  in to an array only to construct the Hash
-    # This code is performance critical as it is called per row.
-    hash = {}
-
-    index = 0
-    while index < column_names_with_alias.length do
-      cn,an = column_names_with_alias[index]
-      hash[cn] = row[an]
-      index += 1
-    end
-
-    hash
-  end
-end
-
diff --git a/lib/freedom_patches/performance_fixes.rb b/lib/freedom_patches/performance_fixes.rb
index 30827702a..ee6b66d08 100644
--- a/lib/freedom_patches/performance_fixes.rb
+++ b/lib/freedom_patches/performance_fixes.rb
@@ -10,27 +10,28 @@ class ActiveRecord::Base
   end
 end
 
-class ActionView::Helpers::AssetTagHelper::AssetIncludeTag
-private
+unless rails4?
+  class ActionView::Helpers::AssetTagHelper::AssetIncludeTag
+  private
 
-  # pluralization is fairly expensive, and pluralizing the word javascript 400 times is pointless
-  # this is fixed in Rails 4
+    # pluralization is fairly expensive, and pluralizing the word javascript 400 times is pointless
+    # this is fixed in Rails 4
+
+    def path_to_asset(source, options = {})
+      asset_paths.compute_public_path(source, pluralize_asset_name(asset_name), options.merge(:ext => extension))
+    end
+
+
+    def path_to_asset_source(source)
+      asset_paths.compute_source_path(source, pluralize_asset_name(asset_name), extension)
+    end
+
+
+    def pluralize_asset_name(asset_name)
+      @@pluralization_cache ||= {}
+      plural = @@pluralization_cache[asset_name] ||= asset_name.to_s.pluralize
+    end
 
-  def path_to_asset(source, options = {})
-    asset_paths.compute_public_path(source, pluralize_asset_name(asset_name), options.merge(:ext => extension))
   end
-
-
-  def path_to_asset_source(source)
-    asset_paths.compute_source_path(source, pluralize_asset_name(asset_name), extension)
-  end
-
-
-  def pluralize_asset_name(asset_name)
-    @@pluralization_cache ||= {}
-    plural = @@pluralization_cache[asset_name] ||= asset_name.to_s.pluralize
-  end
-
-
 end
 
diff --git a/lib/freedom_patches/rails_security_fixes.rb b/lib/freedom_patches/rails_security_fixes.rb
index 2d7451211..7650af2d4 100644
--- a/lib/freedom_patches/rails_security_fixes.rb
+++ b/lib/freedom_patches/rails_security_fixes.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-unless Rails.version =~ /^4/
+unless rails4?
   module HTML
     class WhiteListSanitizer
         # Sanitizes a block of css code. Used by #sanitize when it comes across a style attribute
diff --git a/vendor/gems/rails_multisite/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb b/vendor/gems/rails_multisite/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb
index 980f543fd..6f872b280 100644
--- a/vendor/gems/rails_multisite/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb
+++ b/vendor/gems/rails_multisite/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ module RailsMultisite
       # see: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/8344#issuecomment-10800848
       #
       @@default_connection_handler = ActiveRecord::Base.connection_handler
-      ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, NewConnectionHandler
+      ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, NewConnectionHandler if ActiveRecord::VERSION::MAJOR == 3
       ActiveRecord::Base.connection_handler = @@default_connection_handler
       @@connection_handlers = {}
     end