diff --git a/lib/tasks/whitespace.rake b/lib/tasks/whitespace.rake
index a96baa4f9..397674ae5 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/whitespace.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/whitespace.rake
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 namespace :whitespace do
   desc 'Removes trailing whitespace'
-  task :clean do
+  task :cleanup do
     sh %{find . -name '*.rb' -exec sed -i '' 's/ *$//g' {} \\;}
   end
   task :retab do