diff --git a/lib/tasks/whitespace.rake b/lib/tasks/whitespace.rake
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index 66e2b056c..000000000
--- a/lib/tasks/whitespace.rake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-namespace :whitespace do
-  desc 'Removes trailing whitespace'
-  task :cleanup do
-    sh %{for f in `find . -type f | grep -v -e '.git/' -e 'public/' -e '.png'`;
-          do sed -i 's/[ \t]*$//' $f; echo -n .;
-        done}
-  end
-  desc 'Converts hard-tabs into two-space soft-tabs'
-  task :retab do
-    sh %{for f in `find . -type f | grep -v -e '.git/' -e 'public/' -e '.png'`;
-          do sed -i 's/\t/  /g' $f; echo -n .;
-        done}
-  end
-  desc 'Remove consecutive blank lines'
-  task :scrub_gratuitous_newlines do
-    sh %{for f in `find . -type f | grep -v -e '.git/' -e 'public/' -e '.png'`;
-          do sed -i '/./,/^$/!d' $f; echo -n .;
-        done}
-  end
-end