diff --git a/.rubocop.yml b/.rubocop.yml
index dbe848e0..1ae42a4a 100644
--- a/.rubocop.yml
+++ b/.rubocop.yml
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Jekyll/NoPutsAllowed:
 # ----------------------------------------
 Gemspec/DeprecatedAttributeAssignment:
   Enabled: true
+Gemspec/DevelopmentDependencies:
+  Enabled: false
 Gemspec/RequireMFA:
   Enabled: false
 
@@ -54,6 +56,8 @@ Layout/EmptyLinesAroundAttributeAccessor:
   Enabled: true
 Layout/EndAlignment:
   Severity: error
+Layout/EndOfLine:
+  Enabled: false
 Layout/FirstArrayElementIndentation:
   EnforcedStyle: consistent
 Layout/FirstHashElementIndentation:
@@ -113,6 +117,10 @@ Lint/DuplicateBranch:
   Enabled: true
 Lint/DuplicateElsifCondition:
   Enabled: true
+Lint/DuplicateMagicComment:
+  Enabled: true
+Lint/DuplicateMatchPattern:
+  Enabled: true
 Lint/DuplicateRegexpCharacterClassElement:
   Enabled: true
 Lint/DuplicateRequire:
@@ -137,6 +145,8 @@ Lint/LambdaWithoutLiteralBlock:
   Enabled: true
 Lint/MissingSuper:
   Enabled: false
+Lint/MixedCaseRange:
+  Enabled: true
 Lint/MixedRegexpCaptureTypes:
   Enabled: false
 Lint/NestedPercentLiteral:
@@ -154,8 +164,12 @@ Lint/RaiseException:
   Enabled: true
 Lint/RedundantDirGlobSort:
   Enabled: true
+Lint/RedundantRegexpQuantifiers:
+  Enabled: true
 Lint/RedundantSafeNavigation:
   Enabled: true
+Lint/RefinementImportMethods:
+  Enabled: true
 Lint/RequireRangeParentheses:
   Enabled: true
 Lint/RequireRelativeSelfPath:
@@ -184,6 +198,8 @@ Lint/UnreachableLoop:
   Enabled: true
 Lint/UselessMethodDefinition:
   Enabled: true
+Lint/UselessRuby2Keywords:
+  Enabled: true
 Lint/UselessTimes:
   Enabled: true
 Lint/Void:
@@ -208,6 +224,8 @@ Metrics/ClassLength:
   - lib/jekyll/site.rb
   - test/**/*.rb
   Max: 240
+Metrics/CollectionLiteralLength:
+  Enabled: true
 Metrics/CyclomaticComplexity:
   Exclude:
   - lib/jekyll/commands/serve.rb
@@ -234,32 +252,70 @@ Minitest/AssertInDelta:
   Enabled: true
 Minitest/AssertKindOf:
   Enabled: true
+Minitest/AssertOperator:
+  Enabled: false
 Minitest/AssertOutput:
   Enabled: true
 Minitest/AssertPathExists:
   Enabled: true
+Minitest/AssertPredicate:
+  Enabled: false
+Minitest/AssertRaisesWithRegexpArgument:
+  Enabled: true
+Minitest/AssertSame:
+  Enabled: true
 Minitest/AssertSilent:
   Enabled: true
 Minitest/AssertWithExpectedArgument:
   Enabled: true
 Minitest/AssertionInLifecycleHook:
   Enabled: true
+Minitest/DuplicateTestRun:
+  Enabled: true
+Minitest/EmptyLineBeforeAssertionMethods:
+  Enabled: false
+Minitest/LifecycleHooksOrder:
+  Enabled: true
 Minitest/LiteralAsActualArgument:
   Enabled: true
 Minitest/MultipleAssertions:
   Enabled: true
+Minitest/NonExecutableTestMethod:
+  Enabled: true
+Minitest/NonPublicTestMethod:
+  Enabled: true
+Minitest/RedundantMessageArgument:
+  Enabled: true
 Minitest/RefuteInDelta:
   Enabled: true
 Minitest/RefuteKindOf:
   Enabled: true
+Minitest/RefuteOperator:
+  Enabled: false
 Minitest/RefutePathExists:
   Enabled: true
+Minitest/RefutePredicate:
+  Enabled: false
+Minitest/RefuteSame:
+  Enabled: true
+Minitest/ReturnInTestMethod:
+  Enabled: true
+Minitest/SkipEnsure:
+  Enabled: true
+Minitest/SkipWithoutReason:
+  Enabled: true
+Minitest/TestFileName:
+  Enabled: true
+  Exclude:
+  - test/helper.rb
 Minitest/TestMethodName:
   Enabled: false
 Minitest/UnreachableAssertion:
   Enabled: true
 Minitest/UnspecifiedException:
   Enabled: true
+Minitest/UselessAssertion:
+  Enabled: true
 
 # Naming cops
 # ----------------------------------------
@@ -293,6 +349,8 @@ Performance/ConstantRegexp:
   Enabled: true
 Performance/MapCompact:
   Enabled: true
+Performance/MapMethodChain:
+  Enabled: true
 Performance/MethodObjectAsBlock:
   Enabled: true
 Performance/RedundantEqualityComparisonBlock:
@@ -347,6 +405,8 @@ Style/ArgumentsForwarding:
   Enabled: false
 Style/ArrayCoercion:
   Enabled: true
+Style/ArrayIntersect:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/BisectedAttrAccessor:
   Enabled: true
 Style/CaseLikeIf:
@@ -360,6 +420,10 @@ Style/CollectionCompact:
   Enabled: true
 Style/CombinableLoops:
   Enabled: true
+Style/ConcatArrayLiterals:
+  Enabled: true
+Style/DirEmpty:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/DocumentDynamicEvalDefinition:
   Enabled: true
 Style/Documentation:
@@ -372,12 +436,16 @@ Style/EndlessMethod:
   Enabled: true
 Style/EnvHome:
   Enabled: true
+Style/ExactRegexpMatch:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/ExplicitBlockArgument:
   Enabled: false
 Style/ExponentialNotation:
   Enabled: true
 Style/FetchEnvVar:
   Enabled: false
+Style/FileEmpty:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/FileRead:
   Enabled: false
 Style/FileWrite:
@@ -435,6 +503,10 @@ Style/NestedFileDirname:
   Enabled: true
 Style/NilLambda:
   Enabled: true
+Style/ObjectThen:
+  Enabled: true
+Style/OperatorMethodCall:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/OptionalBooleanParameter:
   Enabled: true
   Exclude:
@@ -452,28 +524,52 @@ Style/QuotedSymbols:
   Enabled: true
 Style/RedundantArgument:
   Enabled: true
+Style/RedundantArrayConstructor:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/RedundantAssignment:
   Enabled: true
+Style/RedundantConstantBase:
+  Enabled: true
+Style/RedundantCurrentDirectoryInPath:
+  Enabled: true
+Style/RedundantDoubleSplatHashBraces:
+  Enabled: true
+Style/RedundantEach:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/RedundantFetchBlock:
   Enabled: false
 Style/RedundantFileExtensionInRequire:
   Enabled: true
+Style/RedundantFilterChain:
+  Enabled: true
+Style/RedundantHeredocDelimiterQuotes:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/RedundantInitialize:
   Enabled: true
   Exclude:
   - lib/jekyll/plugin.rb
+Style/RedundantLineContinuation:
+  Enabled: true
+Style/RedundantRegexpArgument:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/RedundantRegexpCharacterClass:
   Enabled: true
+Style/RedundantRegexpConstructor:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/RedundantRegexpEscape:
   Enabled: true
 Style/RedundantSelfAssignment:
   Enabled: true
 Style/RedundantSelfAssignmentBranch:
   Enabled: true
+Style/RedundantStringEscape:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/RegexpLiteral:
   EnforcedStyle: percent_r
 Style/RescueModifier:
   Enabled: false
+Style/ReturnNilInPredicateMethodDefinition:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/SafeNavigation:
   Exclude:
   - lib/jekyll/document.rb
@@ -482,6 +578,8 @@ Style/SignalException:
   EnforcedStyle: only_raise
 Style/SingleArgumentDig:
   Enabled: true
+Style/SingleLineDoEndBlock:
+  Enabled: true
 Style/SlicingWithRange:
   Enabled: false
 Style/SoleNestedConditional:
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/plugin_manager.rb b/lib/jekyll/plugin_manager.rb
index 84c555ab..810a2fa1 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/plugin_manager.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/plugin_manager.rb
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ module Jekyll
     # Returns an array of strings, each string being the name of a gem name
     #   that is allowed to be used.
     def whitelist
-      @whitelist ||= Array[site.config["whitelist"]].flatten
+      @whitelist ||= [site.config["whitelist"]].flatten
     end
 
     # Require all .rb files if safe mode is off
diff --git a/test/test_tag_link.rb b/test/test_tag_link.rb
index e0d2a714..a5ffaf22 100644
--- a/test/test_tag_link.rb
+++ b/test/test_tag_link.rb
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class TestTagLink < TagUnitTest
         {% assign contacts_ext = 'html' %}
         {% link {{contacts_filename}}.{{contacts_ext}} %}
         {% assign info_path = 'info.md' %}
-        {% link {{\ info_path\ }} %}
+        {% link {{ info_path }} %}
         {% assign screen_css_path = '/css' %}
         {% link {{ screen_css_path }}/screen.css %}
       CONTENT
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ class TestTagLink < TagUnitTest
         ---
 
         {% assign non_existent_path = 'non-existent-collection-item' %}
-        {% link {{\ non_existent_path\ }} %}
+        {% link {{ non_existent_path }} %}
       CONTENT
 
       assert_raises ArgumentError do
diff --git a/test/test_utils.rb b/test/test_utils.rb
index ad5b43fa..f282cb38 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.rb
+++ b/test/test_utils.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 require "helper"
 
 class TestUtils < JekyllUnitTest
-  context "The \`Utils.deep_merge_hashes\` method" do
+  context "The `Utils.deep_merge_hashes` method" do
     setup do
       clear_dest
       @site = fixture_site
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ class TestUtils < JekyllUnitTest
     end
   end
 
-  context "The \`Utils.parse_date\` method" do
+  context "The `Utils.parse_date` method" do
     should "parse a properly formatted date" do
       assert_kind_of Time, Utils.parse_date("2014-08-02 14:43:06 PDT")
     end
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ class TestUtils < JekyllUnitTest
     end
   end
 
-  context "The \`Utils.slugify\` method" do
+  context "The `Utils.slugify` method" do
     should "return nil if passed nil" do
       assert_nil Utils.slugify(nil)
     rescue NoMethodError
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ class TestUtils < JekyllUnitTest
     end
   end
 
-  context "The \`Utils.titleize_slug\` method" do
+  context "The `Utils.titleize_slug` method" do
     should "capitalize all words and not drop any words" do
       assert_equal(
         "This Is A Long Title With Mixed Capitalization",
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ class TestUtils < JekyllUnitTest
     end
   end
 
-  context "The \`Utils.add_permalink_suffix\` method" do
+  context "The `Utils.add_permalink_suffix` method" do
     should "handle built-in permalink styles" do
       assert_equal(
         "/:basename/",
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ class TestUtils < JekyllUnitTest
     end
   end
 
-  context "The \`Utils.safe_glob\` method" do
+  context "The `Utils.safe_glob` method" do
     should "not apply pattern to the dir" do
       dir = "test/safe_glob_test["
       assert_equal [], Dir.glob(dir + "/*") unless jruby?
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ class TestUtils < JekyllUnitTest
     end
   end
 
-  context "The \`Utils.has_yaml_header?\` method" do
+  context "The `Utils.has_yaml_header?` method" do
     should "accept files with YAML front matter" do
       file = source_dir("_posts", "2008-10-18-foo-bar.markdown")
       assert_equal "---\n", File.open(file, "rb") { |f| f.read(4) }
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ class TestUtils < JekyllUnitTest
     end
   end
 
-  context "The \`Utils.merged_file_read_opts\` method" do
+  context "The `Utils.merged_file_read_opts` method" do
     should "ignore encoding if it's not there" do
       opts = Utils.merged_file_read_opts(nil, {})
       assert_nil opts["encoding"]