diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/test/missing_formula_spec.rb b/Library/Homebrew/test/missing_formula_spec.rb
index 13ef707d4c..a9d0083d09 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/test/missing_formula_spec.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/test/missing_formula_spec.rb
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ describe Homebrew::MissingFormula do
 
   context "::blacklisted_reason" do
     matcher(:be_blacklisted) do
-      match(&described_class.method(:blacklisted_reason))
+      match do |expected|
+        described_class.blacklisted_reason(expected)
+      end
     end
 
     context "rubygems" do
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/test/version_spec.rb b/Library/Homebrew/test/version_spec.rb
index f0f52b3753..a713d6369b 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/test/version_spec.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/test/version_spec.rb
@@ -241,10 +241,9 @@ describe Version do
 
   describe "::detect" do
     matcher :be_detected_from do |url, specs = {}|
-      detected = described_class.detect(url, specs)
-
       match do |expected|
-        detected == expected
+        @detected = described_class.detect(url, specs)
+        @detected == expected
       end
 
       failure_message do |expected|
@@ -252,7 +251,7 @@ describe Version do
           expected: %s
           detected: %s
         EOS
-        format(message, expected, detected)
+        format(message, expected, @detected)
       end
     end