rspec's new expect {} syntax replaces this nicely.

spec/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation_spec.rb

@@ -66,13 +66,13 @@ module DatabaseCleaner
         end
 
         it "should raise an error when :only and :except options are used" do
-          expect(running {
+          expect {
             Truncation.new(:except => ['widgets'], :only => ['widgets'])
-          }).to raise_error(ArgumentError)
+          }.to raise_error(ArgumentError)
         end
 
         it "should raise an error when invalid options are provided" do
-          expect(running { Truncation.new(:foo => 'bar') }).to raise_error(ArgumentError)
+          expect { Truncation.new(:foo => 'bar') }.to raise_error(ArgumentError)
         end
 
         it "should not truncate views" do

spec/database_cleaner/base_spec.rb

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ module DatabaseCleaner
        let(:cleaner) { DatabaseCleaner::Base.new :autodetect }
 
        it "should raise an error when no ORM is detected" do
-         expect(running { cleaner }).to raise_error(DatabaseCleaner::NoORMDetected)
+         expect { cleaner }.to raise_error(DatabaseCleaner::NoORMDetected)
        end
 
        it "should detect ActiveRecord first" do

spec/database_cleaner/couch_potato/truncation_spec.rb

@@ -18,21 +18,21 @@ module DatabaseCleaner
       end
 
       it "should raise an error when the :only option is used" do
-        expect(running {
+        expect {
           Truncation.new(:only => ['document-type'])
-        }).to raise_error(ArgumentError)
+        }.to raise_error(ArgumentError)
       end
 
       it "should raise an error when the :except option is used" do
-        expect(running {
+        expect {
           Truncation.new(:except => ['document-type'])
-        }).to raise_error(ArgumentError)
+        }.to raise_error(ArgumentError)
       end
 
       it "should raise an error when invalid options are provided" do
-        expect(running {
+        expect {
           Truncation.new(:foo => 'bar')
-        }).to raise_error(ArgumentError)
+        }.to raise_error(ArgumentError)
       end
     end
 

spec/spec_helper.rb

@@ -10,4 +10,3 @@ RSpec.configure do |config|
   config.run_all_when_everything_filtered = true
 end
 
-alias running lambda