diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 706f94df5d..d6e9b34354 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -113,8 +113,6 @@ group :development do
     gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 3.1'
     gem 'rspec-html-matchers', '~> 0.7'
     gem 'shoulda-matchers'
-    gem 'spring', '~> 1.3.0'
-    gem 'spring-commands-rspec'
     gem 'vcr'
     gem 'webmock', '~> 1.17.4', require: false
   end
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 0b74a315a8..683628047b 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -419,9 +419,6 @@ GEM
     slop (3.6.0)
     spectrum-rails (1.3.4)
       railties (>= 3.1)
-    spring (1.3.6)
-    spring-commands-rspec (1.0.4)
-      spring (>= 0.9.1)
     sprockets (3.2.0)
       rack (~> 1.0)
     sprockets-rails (2.3.1)
@@ -569,8 +566,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   shoulda-matchers
   slack-notifier (~> 1.0.0)
   spectrum-rails
-  spring (~> 1.3.0)
-  spring-commands-rspec
   string-scrub
   therubyracer (~> 0.12.2)
   tumblr_client
@@ -589,4 +584,4 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   xmpp4r (~> 0.5.6)
 
 BUNDLED WITH
-   1.10.5
+   1.10.6
diff --git a/Guardfile b/Guardfile
index 4e114775a0..8cd006f846 100644
--- a/Guardfile
+++ b/Guardfile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ guard 'livereload' do
   watch(%r{(app|vendor)(/assets/\w+/(.+\.(css|js|html|png|jpg))).*}) { |m| "/assets/#{m[3]}" }
 end
 
-guard :rspec, cmd: 'bundle exec spring rspec' do
+guard :rspec, cmd: 'bundle exec rspec' do
   watch(%r{^spec/.+_spec\.rb$})
   watch(%r{^lib/(.+)\.rb$})     { |m| "spec/lib/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
   watch('spec/spec_helper.rb')  { "spec" }
diff --git a/bin/rails b/bin/rails
index 7feb6a30e6..728cd85aa5 100755
--- a/bin/rails
+++ b/bin/rails
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
-begin
-  load File.expand_path("../spring", __FILE__)
-rescue LoadError
-end
 APP_PATH = File.expand_path('../../config/application',  __FILE__)
 require_relative '../config/boot'
 require 'rails/commands'
diff --git a/bin/rake b/bin/rake
index 8017a0271d..17240489f6 100755
--- a/bin/rake
+++ b/bin/rake
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
-begin
-  load File.expand_path("../spring", __FILE__)
-rescue LoadError
-end
 require_relative '../config/boot'
 require 'rake'
 Rake.application.run
diff --git a/bin/rspec b/bin/rspec
index 20060ebd79..d72fadf396 100755
--- a/bin/rspec
+++ b/bin/rspec
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
-begin
-  load File.expand_path("../spring", __FILE__)
-rescue LoadError
-end
 require 'bundler/setup'
 load Gem.bin_path('rspec-core', 'rspec')
diff --git a/bin/spring b/bin/spring
deleted file mode 100755
index e09182495f..0000000000
--- a/bin/spring
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env ruby
-
-# This file loads spring without using Bundler, in order to be fast.
-# It gets overwritten when you run the `spring binstub` command.
-
-unless defined?(Spring)
-  require "rubygems"
-  require "bundler"
-
-  if match = Bundler.default_lockfile.read.match(/^GEM$.*?^    (?:  )*spring \((.*?)\)$.*?^$/m)
-    Gem.paths = { "GEM_PATH" => Bundler.bundle_path.to_s }
-    gem "spring", match[1]
-    require "spring/binstub"
-  end
-end