diff --git a/.rspec b/.rspec
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7438fbe51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.rspec
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+--colour
+--format documentation
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 0cfa33569..7a86b3aad 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ end
 
 group :test, :development do
   gem 'rake', '>= 0.9.0'
-  gem 'rspec', '~> 1.2.9'
+  gem 'rspec', '~> 2.10.0'
   gem 'rcov', '>= 0.9.9', :platform => :mri_18
 end
 
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index cf1eea187..1565402c4 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ $LOAD_PATH.uniq!
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'rake'
 
-gem 'rspec', '~> 1.2.9'
+gem 'rspec', '~> 2.10.0'
 begin
-  require 'spec/rake/spectask'
+  require 'rspec/core/rake_task'
 rescue LoadError
   STDERR.puts "Please install rspec:"
   STDERR.puts "sudo gem install rspec"
diff --git a/spec/spec.opts b/spec/spec.opts
deleted file mode 100644
index 5779d6236..000000000
--- a/spec/spec.opts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
---colour
---format specdoc
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index 531fa9598..6f1dd6867 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -3,3 +3,6 @@ lib_dir = File.expand_path("../lib", spec_dir)
 
 $LOAD_PATH.unshift(lib_dir)
 $LOAD_PATH.uniq!
+
+RSpec.configure do |config|
+end
diff --git a/tasks/gem.rake b/tasks/gem.rake
index 2f6696069..098333a3e 100644
--- a/tasks/gem.rake
+++ b/tasks/gem.rake
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ namespace :gem do
     s.add_development_dependency('sinatra', '>= 1.2.0')
 
     s.add_development_dependency('rake', '>= 0.9.0')
-    s.add_development_dependency('rspec', '~> 1.2.9')
+    s.add_development_dependency('rspec', '~> 2.10.0')
     s.add_development_dependency('rcov', '>= 0.9.9')
 
     s.require_path = 'lib'
diff --git a/tasks/spec.rake b/tasks/spec.rake
index 0838b646e..85d498633 100644
--- a/tasks/spec.rake
+++ b/tasks/spec.rake
@@ -1,16 +1,31 @@
-require 'spec/rake/verify_rcov'
 require 'rake/clean'
 
 CLOBBER.include('coverage', 'specdoc')
 
 namespace :spec do
-  Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(:rcov) do |t|
-    t.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb']
-    t.spec_opts = ['--require', 'rubygems', '--color', '--format', 'specdoc']
+  RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:all) do |t|
+  end
+
+  RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:fast) do |t|
+    t.pattern = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb'].exclude(
+      'spec/**/*_slow_spec.rb'
+    )
+  end
+
+  desc 'Generate HTML Specdocs for all specs.'
+  RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:specdoc) do |t|
+    specdoc_path = File.expand_path('../../specdoc', __FILE__)
+    Dir.mkdir(specdoc_path) if !File.exist?(specdoc_path)
+
+    t.rspec_opts = %W( --format html --out #{File.join(specdoc_path, 'index.html')} )
+    t.fail_on_error = false
+  end
+
+  RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:rcov) do |t|
     if RCOV_ENABLED
       if `which rcov`.strip == ""
         STDERR.puts(
-          "Please install rcov and ensure that its binary is in the PATH:"
+            "Please install rcov and ensure that its binary is in the PATH:"
         )
         STDERR.puts("sudo gem install rcov")
         exit(1)
@@ -19,30 +34,16 @@ namespace :spec do
     else
       t.rcov = false
     end
-    t.rcov_opts = [
-      '--exclude', 'lib\\/google\\/api_client\\/environment.rb',
-      '--exclude', 'lib\\/compat',
-      '--exclude', 'spec',
-      '--exclude', '\\.rvm\\/gems',
-      '--exclude', '1\\.8\\/gems',
-      '--exclude', '1\\.9\\/gems',
-      '--exclude', '\\.rvm',
-      '--exclude', '\\/Library\\/Ruby',
-    ]
-  end
-
-  Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(:all) do |t|
-    t.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb']
-    t.spec_opts = ['--require', 'rubygems', '--color', '--format', 'specdoc']
-    t.rcov = false
-  end
-
-  Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(:fast) do |t|
-    t.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb'].exclude(
-      'spec/**/*_slow_spec.rb'
+    t.rcov_opts = %w(
+        --exclude lib/google/api_client/environment.rb,
+                  lib/compat,
+                  spec,
+                  .rvm/gems,
+                  1.8/gems,
+                  1.9/gems,
+                  .rvm,
+                  /Library/Ruby
     )
-    t.spec_opts = ['--require', 'rubygems', '--color', '--format', 'specdoc']
-    t.rcov = false
   end
 
   if RCOV_ENABLED
@@ -54,18 +55,6 @@ namespace :spec do
     task :verify => :rcov
   end
 
-  desc 'Generate HTML Specdocs for all specs'
-  Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(:specdoc) do |t|
-    specdoc_path = File.expand_path(
-      File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '../specdoc/'))
-    Dir.mkdir(specdoc_path) if !File.exist?(specdoc_path)
-
-    output_file = File.join(specdoc_path, 'index.html')
-    t.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb']
-    t.spec_opts = ['--format', "\"html:#{output_file}\"", '--diff']
-    t.fail_on_error = false
-  end
-
   namespace :rcov do
     desc 'Browse the code coverage report.'
     task :browse => 'spec:rcov' do