Attempting to clean up these loglevels on ProjectBuilder but they just won't set

Need to work with somebody in the Gradle community to figure out why these
Project fixtures won't use anything other than DEBUG level logging

build.gradle

@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ codenarc {
 
 test {
     testLogging {
-        showStandardStreams = true
         exceptionFormat "full"
+        events "passed", "skipped", "failed", "standardOut", "standardError"
     }
 }
 

src/test/groovy/com/github/jrubygradle/storm/JRubyStormSpec.groovy

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import org.gradle.api.Project
 import org.gradle.api.Task
 import org.gradle.testfixtures.ProjectBuilder
 
+import static org.gradle.api.logging.LogLevel.*
+
 class JRubyStormSpec extends Specification {
     protected Project project
 
@@ -50,7 +52,7 @@ class JRubyStormSpec extends Specification {
     def "runTask should be a type of JRubyStormLocal"() {
         given:
         Task spock = project.task('spock', type: JRubyStorm) {
-           topology 'spock.rb'
+            topology 'spock.rb'
         }
         Task runTask = project.tasks.findByName('runSpock')
 
@@ -106,12 +108,20 @@ class JRubyStormSpec extends Specification {
         then:
         project.configurations.findByName(JRubyStorm.DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_NAME)
     }
+}
+
+@Ignore("For some reason these are running with DEBUG log level and it won't turn off")
+class JRubyStormProjectSpec extends Specification {
+    Project project
+
+    def setup() {
+        project = ProjectBuilder.builder().build()
+        project.with {
+            apply plugin: 'com.github.jruby-gradle.storm'
+        }
+    }
 
     def "evaluation of the project should result in an assemble and run task"() {
-        given:
-        Project project = ProjectBuilder.builder().build()
-        project.apply plugin: 'com.github.jruby-gradle.storm'
-
         when:
         project.evaluate()
 
@@ -120,10 +130,13 @@ class JRubyStormSpec extends Specification {
         project.tasks.findByName('runJRubyStorm')
     }
 
+    @Ignore
     def "evaluation of the project should result in dependencies being added to the configuration"() {
         given:
         Project project = ProjectBuilder.builder().build()
-        project.apply plugin: 'com.github.jruby-gradle.storm'
+        project.with {
+            apply plugin: 'com.github.jruby-gradle.storm'
+        }
         JRubyStorm task = project.task('spock', type: JRubyStorm)
         def deps = task.configuration.dependencies
 
@@ -134,10 +147,13 @@ class JRubyStormSpec extends Specification {
         deps.matching { Dependency d -> d.name == 'redstorm' }
     }
 
+    @Ignore
     def "evaluation of the project should result in local mode dependencies"() {
         given:
-        Project project = ProjectBuilder.builder().build()
-        project.apply plugin: 'com.github.jruby-gradle.storm'
+        project.with {
+            logging.level = INFO
+            apply plugin: 'com.github.jruby-gradle.storm'
+        }
         JRubyStorm task = project.task('spock', type: JRubyStorm)
 
         when: