diff --git a/bin/robot b/bin/robot
index 42b25a827..6f854cc06 100755
--- a/bin/robot
+++ b/bin/robot
@@ -3,11 +3,6 @@
 # Update repo 
 #
 
-# default locations
-export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
-export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
-
 # cd to Rails root directory
 cd "$(dirname "$0")"; cd ..
 
diff --git a/bin/robot-audit b/bin/robot-audit
index ccf318ba4..e71fc57f8 100755
--- a/bin/robot-audit
+++ b/bin/robot-audit
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@
 # fail later
 set -o pipefail
 
+# default locations
+export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
+export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+export RAILS_ENV=test
+
 # cp config/secrets-example.yml config/secrets.yml
 # create manually config/database.yml
 
diff --git a/spec/support/general.rb b/spec/support/general.rb
index 3c646e2e4..99de8a409 100644
--- a/spec/support/general.rb
+++ b/spec/support/general.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ module General
   end
 end
 
-
 RSpec.configure do |c|
   c.include General
 end