Protractor unit test not actually testing anything, then breaks in Jasmine 2.9+

[slackersoft]

The "local connect with the selenium standalone jar" spec isn't actually testing anything because it is calling Jasmine's beforeEach, afterEach, and it inside of another it. This probably caused the build breakages when Jasmine 2.9 was released, because that release made this throw an error and fail the test suite. The test is here, but when I remove the outer it so that the inner one actually execute, the spec fails because the Error that is thrown doesn't have any code at all on it, instead it is:

Error: Do not know how to build driver: foobar explorer; did you forget to call usingServer(url)?
        at Builder.build (/Users/pivotal/workspace/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/index.js:663:15)
        at Local.getNewDriver (/Users/pivotal/workspace/protractor/built/driverProviders/driverProvider.js:53:33)
        at /Users/pivotal/workspace/protractor/spec/unit/driverProviders/local_test.js:64:19

And I'm not sure the right Protractor way to solve this. I was looking to send in a PR to update for Jasmine 3.0, which was released recently, but, I am unable to get a green test suite locally due to this.