diff --git a/spec/batch/indexer_spec.rb b/spec/batch/indexer_spec.rb
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/spec/batch/indexer_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/batch/indexer_spec.rb
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ describe Neo4j::Batch::Indexer do
   describe "#index_entity" do
     context "has no index" do
       before(:each) do
-        Neo4j.threadlocal_ref_node = nil
         @clazz = create_node_mixin do
         end
       end
@@ -35,7 +34,6 @@ describe Neo4j::Batch::Indexer do
 
     context "has a subclass" do
       before(:each) do
-        Neo4j.threadlocal_ref_node = nil
         @base_class = create_node_mixin do
           index :name
         end
@@ -100,7 +98,6 @@ describe Neo4j::Batch::Indexer do
 
     context "declared one exact and one fulltext field" do
       before(:each) do
-        Neo4j.threadlocal_ref_node = nil
         @clazz = create_node_mixin do
           index :name
           index :desc, :type => :fulltext
@@ -171,10 +168,7 @@ describe Neo4j::Batch::Indexer do
   end
 
   describe "#index_node_via_rel" do
-    before(:each) do
-      Neo4j.threadlocal_ref_node = nil
-    end
-    
+
     it "does not index anything unless the index is decalred with an :via=>" do
       clazz                                = create_node_mixin do
         index :name
Removed unncessary threadlocal assignments