diff --git a/Appraisals b/Appraisals
index 488a77f..9d4326e 100644
--- a/Appraisals
+++ b/Appraisals
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ appraise "rails5.0" do
   gem "listen", "~> 3.0.5"
   gem "puma", "~> 3.0"
   gem "rails", "~> 5.0.7", ">= 5.0.7.2"
-  gem "spring"
+  gem "spring", "!= 2.1.1"
   gem "spring-watcher-listen", "~> 2.0.0"
   gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.3.6"
 end
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ appraise "rails5.1" do
   gem "listen", ">= 3.0.5", "< 3.2"
   gem "puma", "~> 3.7"
   gem "rails", "~> 5.1.7"
-  gem "spring"
+  gem "spring", "!= 2.1.1"
   gem "spring-watcher-listen", "~> 2.0.0"
   gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.3.6"
 end
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ appraise "rails5.2" do
   gem "listen", ">= 3.0.5", "< 3.2"
   gem "puma", "~> 3.11"
   gem "rails", "~> 5.2.4", ">= 5.2.4.2"
-  gem "spring"
+  gem "spring", "!= 2.1.1"
   gem "spring-watcher-listen", "~> 2.0.0"
   gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.3.6"
 end
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ appraise "rails6.0" do
   gem "listen", "~> 3.2"
   gem "puma", "~> 4.1"
   gem "rails", "~> 6.0.2", ">= 6.0.2.2"
-  gem "spring"
+  gem "spring", "!= 2.1.1"
   gem "spring-watcher-listen", "~> 2.0.0"
   gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.4"
 end
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 1c8b388..da39cbe 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ GEM
     nokogiri (1.10.9)
       mini_portile2 (~> 2.4.0)
     nokogiri (1.10.9-java)
-    parallel (1.19.2)
-    parser (2.7.1.4)
+    parallel (1.20.1)
+    parser (3.0.0.0)
       ast (~> 2.4.1)
     rack (2.2.3)
     rack-test (1.1.0)
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ GEM
       thor (>= 0.20.3, < 2.0)
     rainbow (3.0.0)
     rake (13.0.1)
-    regexp_parser (1.7.1)
+    regexp_parser (2.0.3)
     rexml (3.2.4)
     rspec-core (3.9.2)
       rspec-support (~> 3.9.3)
@@ -111,23 +111,24 @@ GEM
       rspec-mocks (~> 3.9)
       rspec-support (~> 3.9)
     rspec-support (3.9.3)
-    rubocop (0.85.1)
+    rubocop (1.7.0)
       parallel (~> 1.10)
-      parser (>= 2.7.0.1)
+      parser (>= 2.7.1.5)
       rainbow (>= 2.2.2, < 4.0)
-      regexp_parser (>= 1.7)
+      regexp_parser (>= 1.8, < 3.0)
       rexml
-      rubocop-ast (>= 0.0.3)
+      rubocop-ast (>= 1.2.0, < 2.0)
       ruby-progressbar (~> 1.7)
       unicode-display_width (>= 1.4.0, < 2.0)
-    rubocop-ast (0.1.0)
-      parser (>= 2.7.0.1)
-    rubocop-performance (1.6.1)
-      rubocop (>= 0.71.0)
-    ruby-progressbar (1.10.1)
-    standard (0.4.7)
-      rubocop (~> 0.85.0)
-      rubocop-performance (~> 1.6.0)
+    rubocop-ast (1.4.0)
+      parser (>= 2.7.1.5)
+    rubocop-performance (1.9.2)
+      rubocop (>= 0.90.0, < 2.0)
+      rubocop-ast (>= 0.4.0)
+    ruby-progressbar (1.11.0)
+    standard (0.11.0)
+      rubocop (= 1.7.0)
+      rubocop-performance (= 1.9.2)
     thor (1.0.1)
     thread_safe (0.3.6)
     thread_safe (0.3.6-java)
diff --git a/features/reloading.feature b/features/reloading.feature
index 94477be..39f1de2 100644
--- a/features/reloading.feature
+++ b/features/reloading.feature
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Feature: automatically reloading factory_bot definitions
         end
       end
       """
-    And I run `bundle exec rake db:migrate` with a clean environment
+    And I run `bin/rails db:migrate` with a clean environment
 
   Scenario: When using factory_bot_rails together with Spring
     I want changes to my application to trigger the factory_bot_rails reloader
@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ Feature: automatically reloading factory_bot definitions
         end
       end
       """
-    And I run `bundle binstubs bundler rake spring --force` with a clean environment
+    And I run `bundle binstubs bundler spring --force` with a clean environment
     And I run `bin/spring binstub --all` with a clean environment
-    And I run `bin/rake test` with Spring enabled
+    And I run `bin/rails test` with Spring enabled
     And I append to "app/models/user.rb" with:
       """
       # User model edited
       """
-    And I run `bin/rake test` with Spring enabled
+    And I run `bin/rails test` with Spring enabled
     And I run `spring stop` with a clean environment
     Then the output should contain "1 runs, 1 assertions"
     And the output should not contain "Failure:"
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ Feature: automatically reloading factory_bot definitions
       # Empty definition file to be picked up by the file watcher
 
       """
-    And I run `bundle binstubs bundler rake spring --force` with a clean environment
+    And I run `bundle binstubs bundler spring --force` with a clean environment
     And I run `bin/spring binstub --all` with a clean environment
-    And I run `bin/rake test` with Spring enabled
+    And I run `bin/rails test` with Spring enabled
     And I append to "test/factories.rb" with:
       """
       FactoryBot.define do
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Feature: automatically reloading factory_bot definitions
         end
       end
       """
-    And I run `bin/rake test` with Spring enabled
+    And I run `bin/rails test` with Spring enabled
     And I run `spring stop` with a clean environment
     Then the output should contain "1 runs, 1 assertions"
     And the output should not contain "Failure:"
@@ -130,6 +130,6 @@ Feature: automatically reloading factory_bot definitions
           end
         end
         """
-      And I run `bundle exec rake test` with a clean environment
+      And I run `bin/rails test` with a clean environment
       Then the output should contain "1 runs, 1 assertions"
       And the output should not contain "Failure:"
diff --git a/features/support/env.rb b/features/support/env.rb
index 07116c6..ad198f4 100644
--- a/features/support/env.rb
+++ b/features/support/env.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ PROJECT_ROOT =
   File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "..")).freeze
 
 Aruba.configure do |config|
-  config.exit_timeout = Integer ENV.fetch("ARUBA_TIMEOUT") { 120 }
+  config.exit_timeout = Integer ENV.fetch("ARUBA_TIMEOUT", 120)
 end
 
 if RUBY_PLATFORM == "java"
diff --git a/features/support/rails_template b/features/support/rails_template
index e78f549..6b085b7 100644
--- a/features/support/rails_template
+++ b/features/support/rails_template
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 if Rails.gem_version < Gem::Version.new('6')
   gsub_file "Gemfile", /^gem 'sqlite3'$/, 'gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.3.6"'
 end
+
+gsub_file "Gemfile", /^ gem 'spring'$/, ' gem "spring", "!= 2.1.1"'
diff --git a/gemfiles/rails5.0.gemfile b/gemfiles/rails5.0.gemfile
index 9d38bc3..df56be8 100644
--- a/gemfiles/rails5.0.gemfile
+++ b/gemfiles/rails5.0.gemfile
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ gem "byebug"
 gem "listen", "~> 3.0.5"
 gem "puma", "~> 3.0"
 gem "rails", "~> 5.0.7", ">= 5.0.7.2"
-gem "spring"
+gem "spring", "!= 2.1.1"
 gem "spring-watcher-listen", "~> 2.0.0"
 gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.3.6"
 
diff --git a/gemfiles/rails5.1.gemfile b/gemfiles/rails5.1.gemfile
index 5744131..7468b1e 100644
--- a/gemfiles/rails5.1.gemfile
+++ b/gemfiles/rails5.1.gemfile
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ gem "byebug"
 gem "listen", ">= 3.0.5", "< 3.2"
 gem "puma", "~> 3.7"
 gem "rails", "~> 5.1.7"
-gem "spring"
+gem "spring", "!= 2.1.1"
 gem "spring-watcher-listen", "~> 2.0.0"
 gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.3.6"
 
diff --git a/gemfiles/rails5.2.gemfile b/gemfiles/rails5.2.gemfile
index 4baa2f7..ab2384e 100644
--- a/gemfiles/rails5.2.gemfile
+++ b/gemfiles/rails5.2.gemfile
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ gem "byebug"
 gem "listen", ">= 3.0.5", "< 3.2"
 gem "puma", "~> 3.11"
 gem "rails", "~> 5.2.4", ">= 5.2.4.2"
-gem "spring"
+gem "spring", "!= 2.1.1"
 gem "spring-watcher-listen", "~> 2.0.0"
 gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.3.6"
 
diff --git a/gemfiles/rails6.0.gemfile b/gemfiles/rails6.0.gemfile
index 556751d..8ef5084 100644
--- a/gemfiles/rails6.0.gemfile
+++ b/gemfiles/rails6.0.gemfile
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ gem "byebug"
 gem "listen", "~> 3.2"
 gem "puma", "~> 4.1"
 gem "rails", "~> 6.0.2", ">= 6.0.2.2"
-gem "spring"
+gem "spring", "!= 2.1.1"
 gem "spring-watcher-listen", "~> 2.0.0"
 gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.4"