WIP: Spec code clean up -- first pass

I was looking at your gem and saw that there was a little bit of code that I could help clean up in your spec files. I don't know if this is of any use to you, but I figured I would open this up as a work in progress and get any feedback you may have.

If this is of use to you then I'll be happy to finish up what I've started. Otherwise I'll just close the pull request.

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