Avoid modifying constant strings

This fixes a ruby 3.4 warning about strings that will
be frozen by default in a future release.

lib/rich_text.rb

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ module RichText
     end
 
     def truncated_text_content(element)
-      text = ""
+      text = String.new
 
       append_text = lambda do |child|
         if child.type == :text

lib/short_link.rb

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ module ShortLink
       # keep support for old shortlinks which use the @ character, now
       # replaced by the ~ character because twitter is horribly broken
       # and we can't have that.
-      str.tr!("@", "~")
+      str = str.tr("@", "~")
 
       str.each_char do |c|
         t = ARRAY.index c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ module ShortLink
     def encode(lon, lat, z)
       code = interleave_bits(((lon + 180.0) * (2**32) / 360.0).to_i,
                              ((lat + 90.0) * (2**32) / 180.0).to_i)
-      str = ""
+      str = String.new
       # add eight to the zoom level, which approximates an accuracy of
       # one pixel in a tile.
       ((z + 8) / 3.0).ceil.times do |i|