diff --git a/bundler.rb b/bundler.rb
index 20b16d6..2e098a5 100644
--- a/bundler.rb
+++ b/bundler.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 dep 'app bundled' do
   requires 'Gemfile', 'bundler.gem'
   requires_when_unmet Dep('current dir:packages')
-  met? { in_dir(var(:rails_root)) { shell 'bundle check', :log => true } }
-  meet { in_dir(var(:rails_root)) {
+  met? { cd(var(:rails_root)) { shell 'bundle check', :log => true } }
+  meet { cd(var(:rails_root)) {
     install_args = var(:rails_env) != 'production' ? '' : "--deployment --without 'development test'"
     unless shell("bundle install #{install_args}", :log => true)
       confirm("Try a `bundle update`") {
diff --git a/git.rb b/git.rb
index 4efdc9e..c75a5fd 100644
--- a/git.rb
+++ b/git.rb
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 
 dep 'web repo always receives' do
   requires 'web repo exists'
-  met? { in_dir(var(:web_repo_root)) { shell("git config receive.denyCurrentBranch") == 'ignore' } }
-  meet { in_dir(var(:web_repo_root)) { shell("git config receive.denyCurrentBranch ignore") } }
+  met? { cd(var(:web_repo_root)) { shell("git config receive.denyCurrentBranch") == 'ignore' } }
+  meet { cd(var(:web_repo_root)) { shell("git config receive.denyCurrentBranch ignore") } }
 end
 
 dep 'web repo hooks' do
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
     }
   }
   meet {
-    in_dir var(:web_repo_root), :create => true do
+    cd var(:web_repo_root), :create => true do
       %w[pre-receive post-receive].each {|hook_name|
         render_erb "git/deploy-repo-#{hook_name}", :to => ".git/hooks/#{hook_name}"
         shell "chmod +x .git/hooks/#{hook_name}"
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
   define_var :web_repo_root, :default => "~/current"
   met? { (var(:web_repo_root) / '.git').dir? }
   meet {
-    in_dir var(:web_repo_root), :create => true do
+    cd var(:web_repo_root), :create => true do
       shell "git init"
     end
   }
diff --git a/homebrew.rb b/homebrew.rb
index 01b658b..05b2ca8 100644
--- a/homebrew.rb
+++ b/homebrew.rb
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def missing_urls
   end
   met? { missing_urls.empty? }
   meet {
-    in_dir var(:homebrew_downloads) do
+    cd var(:homebrew_downloads) do
       missing_urls.each {|url|
         begin
           Babushka::Resource.download url
diff --git a/hudson.rb b/hudson.rb
index e48f692..ba18511 100644
--- a/hudson.rb
+++ b/hudson.rb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ def path
   requires 'tomcat.managed'
   met? { (path / 'hudson.war').exists? }
   meet {
-    in_dir path, :create => true do
+    cd path, :create => true do
       shell 'wget http://hudson-ci.org/latest/hudson.war'
     end
   }
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def path
 dep 'cli.hudson' do
   met? { (path / 'hudson-cli.jar').exists? }
   meet {
-    in_dir path, :create => true do
+    cd path, :create => true do
       shell 'jar -xf hudson.war WEB-INF/hudson-cli.jar'
       shell 'mv WEB-INF/hudson-cli.jar .'
       shell 'rmdir WEB-INF'
diff --git a/mirroring.rb b/mirroring.rb
index ded771f..728b29e 100644
--- a/mirroring.rb
+++ b/mirroring.rb
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def missing_avatars
     require 'rubygems'
     require 'twitter'
     client = Twitter::Base.new(Twitter::HTTPAuth.new(var(:twitter_username), var(:twitter_pass)))
-    in_dir "~/Desktop/rc7/avatars", :create => true do
+    cd "~/Desktop/rc7/avatars", :create => true do
       missing_avatars.each {|name|
         begin
           url = client.user(name)['profile_image_url'].sub(/_normal(\.[a-zA-Z]+)$/) { $1 }
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def missing_avatars
   met? { missing_avatars.empty? }
   meet {
     require 'digest/md5'
-    in_dir "~/Desktop/rc7/gravatars", :create => true do
+    cd "~/Desktop/rc7/gravatars", :create => true do
       missing_avatars.each {|email|
         Babushka::Archive.download "http://gravatar.com/avatar/#{Digest::MD5.hexdigest(email)}.jpg?s=512&d=404", "#{email}.jpg"
       }
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ def missing_urls
   met? { missing_urls.empty? }
   meet {
     missing_urls.each {|url|
-      in_dir var(:mirror_root) / url.path.p.dirname, :create => true do
+      cd var(:mirror_root) / url.path.p.dirname, :create => true do
         Babushka::Archive.download url
       end
     }
diff --git a/nginx.rb b/nginx.rb
index 12fe099..9fc9205 100644
--- a/nginx.rb
+++ b/nginx.rb
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def restart_nginx
   requires 'webserver installed.src'
   met? { %w[key csr crt].all? {|ext| (nginx_cert_path / "#{var :domain}.#{ext}").exists? } }
   meet {
-    in_dir nginx_cert_path, :create => "700", :sudo => true do
+    cd nginx_cert_path, :create => "700", :sudo => true do
       log_shell("generating private key", "openssl genrsa -out #{var :domain}.key 2048", :sudo => true) and
       log_shell("generating certificate", "openssl req -new -key #{var :domain}.key -out #{var :domain}.csr",
         :sudo => true, :input => [
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ def restart_nginx
     }
   }
   meet {
-    in_dir Babushka::GemHelper.gem_path_for('passenger') do
+    cd Babushka::GemHelper.gem_path_for('passenger') do
       log_shell "Building passenger", "rake clean nginx", :sudo => Babushka::GemHelper.should_sudo?
     end
   }
diff --git a/packages.rb b/packages.rb
index 2d77c73..601c221 100644
--- a/packages.rb
+++ b/packages.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 dep 'coreutils.managed', :for => :osx do
   provides 'gecho'
   after :on => :osx do
-    in_dir pkg_manager.bin_path do
+    cd pkg_manager.bin_path do
       sudo "ln -s gecho echo"
     end
   end
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
   installs { via :macports, 'gsed' }
   provides 'sed'
   after {
-    in_dir '/opt/local/bin' do
+    cd '/opt/local/bin' do
       sudo "ln -s gsed sed"
     end
   }
diff --git a/rvm.rb b/rvm.rb
index bacf962..1fbc96b 100644
--- a/rvm.rb
+++ b/rvm.rb
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def missing_urls
   met? { missing_urls.empty? }
   meet {
     missing_urls.each {|url|
-      in_dir(var(:rvm_vhost_root) / File.dirname(url.sub(/^[a-z]+:\/\/[^\/]+\//, '')), :create => true) do
+      cd(var(:rvm_vhost_root) / File.dirname(url.sub(/^[a-z]+:\/\/[^\/]+\//, '')), :create => true) do
         # begin
           Babushka::Resource.download url
         # rescue StandardError => ex
diff --git a/sbt.rb b/sbt.rb
index e78ff1a..e755673 100644
--- a/sbt.rb
+++ b/sbt.rb
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
   merge :versions, :sbt => '0.5.4'
   met? { which 'sbt' }
   meet {
-    in_dir var(:install_path, :default => '/usr/local') do
-      in_dir 'lib/sbt', :create => true do
+    cd var(:install_path, :default => '/usr/local') do
+      cd 'lib/sbt', :create => true do
         download "http://simple-build-tool.googlecode.com/files/sbt-launcher-#{var(:versions)[:sbt]}.jar"
         shell "ln -sf sbt-launcher-#{var(:versions)[:sbt]}.jar sbt-launcher.jar"
       end
-      in_dir 'bin' do
+      cd 'bin' do
         shell %Q{echo '#!/bin/bash\njava -Xmx512M -jar `dirname $0`/../lib/sbt/sbt-launcher.jar "$@"' > sbt}
         shell 'chmod +x sbt'
       end