diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4ae45467dc..dd55d8ea09 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ newrelic_agent.log
 .bower-registry
 .bower-cache
 .vagrant
+Vagrantfile
 
 *.log
 src/*/*.map
diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile.example
similarity index 95%
rename from Vagrantfile
rename to Vagrantfile.example
index c0fb32fe35..52ffdf1096 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile.example
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
 
 Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
   config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
+    v.memory = 768
+    v.cpus = 1
     v.customize ["setextradata", :id, "VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/vagrant", "1"]
   end
   config.vm.box = "thepeopleseason/habitrpg"
diff --git a/test/spec/mocks/sandbox.js b/test/spec/mocks/sandbox.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f095eefd09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/spec/mocks/sandbox.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+var sandbox;
+
+beforeEach(function() {
+  sandbox = sinon.sandbox.create();
+});
+
+afterEach(function() {
+  sandbox.restore();
+});
diff --git a/test/spec/specHelper.js b/test/spec/specHelper.js
index 115d9a70f5..60a638024f 100644
--- a/test/spec/specHelper.js
+++ b/test/spec/specHelper.js
@@ -1,14 +1,5 @@
 beforeEach(module('habitrpg'));
 
-var sandbox;
-beforeEach(function() {
-  sandbox = sinon.sandbox.create();
-});
-
-afterEach(function() {
-  sandbox.restore();
-});
-
 var specHelper = {};
 
 (function(){