diff --git a/config/cookstyle.yml b/config/cookstyle.yml
index 4fe6177f4..e19dc5d54 100644
--- a/config/cookstyle.yml
+++ b/config/cookstyle.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AllCops:
-  TargetRubyVersion: 2.0
+  TargetRubyVersion: 2.3
   Exclude:
     - vendor/**/*
     - Guardfile
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ Bundler/DuplicatedGem:
 Performance/Casecmp:
   Enabled: false
 
+# This comes with changing the ruby target to 2.3+
+Style/FrozenStringLiteralComment:
+  Enabled: false
+
 # maintain the previous array behavior in previous cookstyle releases
 Style/PercentLiteralDelimiters:
    PreferredDelimiters: