diff --git a/.rubocop.yml b/.rubocop.yml
index e3897daa..514f06fb 100644
--- a/.rubocop.yml
+++ b/.rubocop.yml
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ Style/SpaceAfterComma:
   Enabled: false
 Style/RegexpLiteral:
   Enabled: false
-Style/SignalException:
-  Enabled: false
 Style/PercentLiteralDelimiters:
   Enabled: false
 Style/BlockDelimiters:
diff --git a/features/support/vagrant_helpers.rb b/features/support/vagrant_helpers.rb
index 9a30d116..a42fdb23 100644
--- a/features/support/vagrant_helpers.rb
+++ b/features/support/vagrant_helpers.rb
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ module VagrantHelpers
     if (status = vagrant_cli_command("ssh -c #{command.inspect}")).success?
       true
     else
-      fail VagrantSSHCommandError, status
+      raise VagrantSSHCommandError, status
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/version_validator.rb b/lib/capistrano/version_validator.rb
index 59861dfa..0c9843f0 100644
--- a/lib/capistrano/version_validator.rb
+++ b/lib/capistrano/version_validator.rb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ module Capistrano
       if match?
         self
       else
-        fail "Capfile locked at #{version}, but #{current_version} is loaded"
+        raise "Capfile locked at #{version}, but #{current_version} is loaded"
       end
     end
 
diff --git a/spec/lib/capistrano/configuration_spec.rb b/spec/lib/capistrano/configuration_spec.rb
index fd16e0a5..e29485b0 100644
--- a/spec/lib/capistrano/configuration_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/capistrano/configuration_spec.rb
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ module Capistrano
       end
 
       context "block is passed to fetch" do
-        subject { config.fetch(:key, :default) { fail "we need this!" } }
+        subject { config.fetch(:key, :default) { raise "we need this!" } }
 
         it "returns the block value" do
           expect { subject }.to raise_error(RuntimeError)
diff --git a/spec/support/tasks/fail.rake b/spec/support/tasks/fail.rake
index bfa422cc..ec4092e5 100644
--- a/spec/support/tasks/fail.rake
+++ b/spec/support/tasks/fail.rake
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-set :fail, proc { fail }
+set :fail, proc { raise }
 before "deploy:starting", :fail do
   on roles :all do
     execute :mkdir, "-p", shared_path