Upgrade to rspec-rails 3.1

* Fix deprecation warnings in the cookie matcher
* Fix loading of the MiniTest runner (caused by requiring
  `rails/test_help`, which we didn't need anyway.
* Remove wrapper around MiniTest::Assertion
* Clean up requires in `spec_helper` and `env`.
* Remove .rspec file as the settings in there are default
* Removes deprecations when running the test suite in Rails 4.2
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