diff --git a/Appraisals b/Appraisals
index 7bac302..a5dd337 100644
--- a/Appraisals
+++ b/Appraisals
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ appraise 'rails-7.0' do
   gem 'sqlite3', '~> 1.4.0'
 end
 appraise 'rails-7.1' do
-  gem 'actionpack', '~> 7.0.0'
-  gem 'activerecord', '~> 7.0.0'
+  gem 'actionpack', '~> 7.1.0'
+  gem 'activerecord', '~> 7.q.0'
   gem 'sqlite3', '~> 1.4.0'
 end
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 07e03de..f9604e0 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -8,11 +8,8 @@ Rake::TestTask.new(:test) do |t|
   t.test_files = FileList["test/**/*_test.rb"]
 end
 
-begin
-  require File.expand_path("test/dummy/config/application", __dir__)
-  Rails.application.load_tasks
-rescue LoadError
-end
+require File.expand_path("test/dummy/config/application", __dir__)
+Rails.application.load_tasks
 
 desc "Running Tests"
 task default: :test
diff --git a/gemfiles/rails_7.1.gemfile b/gemfiles/rails_7.1.gemfile
index fbe91c9..303131d 100644
--- a/gemfiles/rails_7.1.gemfile
+++ b/gemfiles/rails_7.1.gemfile
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ gem "cells-rails"
 gem "reform-rails"
 gem "trailblazer"
 gem "trailblazer-cells"
-gem "actionpack", "~> 7.0.0"
-gem "activerecord", "~> 7.0.0"
+gem "actionpack", "~> 7.1.0"
+gem "activerecord", "~> 7.q.0"
 gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.4.0"
 
 gemspec path: "../"
diff --git a/test/dummy/config/application.rb b/test/dummy/config/application.rb
index 086004e..5d47e4e 100644
--- a/test/dummy/config/application.rb
+++ b/test/dummy/config/application.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 module TrailblazerTestApp
   class Application < Rails::Application
     config.load_defaults Rails.gem_version.to_s.split(".")[0..1].join(".")
-    config.active_record.legacy_connection_handling = false if Rails.gem_version >= Gem::Version.new("6.1")
+    config.active_record.legacy_connection_handling = false if config.active_record.respond_to?(:legacy_connection_handling=)
     config.cache_classes = true
     config.eager_load = false
     config.serve_static_files = false
diff --git a/test/song/operation_test.rb b/test/song/operation_test.rb
index d661382..0f493d3 100644
--- a/test/song/operation_test.rb
+++ b/test/song/operation_test.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 require "test_helper"
 require "trailblazer/activity/testing"
 
-class SongOperationTest < Minitest::TrailblazerSpec
+class SongOperationTest < Minitest::Spec
 
   it "what" do
     song = Song.create(title: "Bright Eyes")
diff --git a/test/test_helper.rb b/test/test_helper.rb
index 4670848..6938605 100644
--- a/test/test_helper.rb
+++ b/test/test_helper.rb
@@ -3,4 +3,3 @@
 
 require "minitest/autorun"
 require "capybara/rails"
-require 'minitest/trailblazer_spec'
diff --git a/trailblazer-rails.gemspec b/trailblazer-rails.gemspec
index 1743996..dedb783 100644
--- a/trailblazer-rails.gemspec
+++ b/trailblazer-rails.gemspec
@@ -13,12 +13,11 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.files         = `git ls-files -z`.split("\x0").reject { |f| f.match(%r{^(test)/}) }
   spec.require_paths = ["lib"]
 
-  spec.add_dependency "railties", ">= 5.2.0"
+  spec.add_dependency "railties", ">= 6.0.0"
   spec.add_dependency "trailblazer", ">= 2.1.0", "< 2.2.0"
 
   spec.add_development_dependency "bundler"
   spec.add_development_dependency "minitest"
   spec.add_development_dependency "rake"
   spec.add_development_dependency "capybara"
-  spec.add_development_dependency "minitest-trailblazer"
 end