diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index ddc589a67..4eb7880a4 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ group :development do
   gem "easy_translate", "~> 0.5.1" # Google translate tie-in to be used with i18n tasks
   gem "erb_lint", "~> 0.0.37", require: false # ERB Linter tool
   gem "guard", "~> 2.18", require: false # Guard is a command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications
-  gem "guard-livereload", "~> 2.5", require: false # Guard::LiveReload automatically reloads your browser when 'view' files are modified
+  gem "guard-rspec", "~> 4.7", require: false # Guard::Rspec includes a DSL for running tests on change
   gem "i18n-tasks", "~> 1.0.11" # Helpers to find and manage missing and unused translations
   gem "listen", "~> 3.7", require: false # Helps 'listen' to file system modifications events (also used by other gems like guard)
   gem "memory_profiler", "~> 1.0", require: false # Memory profiling routines for Ruby 2.3+
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index b7d9bd8e8..25d527546 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -228,9 +228,6 @@ GEM
     easy_translate (0.5.1)
       thread
       thread_safe
-    em-websocket (0.5.2)
-      eventmachine (>= 0.12.9)
-      http_parser.rb (~> 0.6.0)
     email_validator (2.2.3)
       activemodel
     emoji_regex (3.2.3)
@@ -247,7 +244,6 @@ GEM
     erubi (1.10.0)
     et-orbi (1.2.7)
       tzinfo
-    eventmachine (1.2.7)
     excon (0.92.3)
     execjs (2.8.1)
     exifr (1.3.9)
@@ -360,11 +356,10 @@ GEM
       shellany (~> 0.0)
       thor (>= 0.18.1)
     guard-compat (1.2.1)
-    guard-livereload (2.5.2)
-      em-websocket (~> 0.5)
-      guard (~> 2.8)
-      guard-compat (~> 1.0)
-      multi_json (~> 1.8)
+    guard-rspec (4.7.3)
+      guard (~> 2.1)
+      guard-compat (~> 1.1)
+      rspec (>= 2.99.0, < 4.0)
     hairtrigger (0.2.25)
       activerecord (>= 5.0, < 8)
       ruby2ruby (~> 2.4)
@@ -719,6 +714,10 @@ GEM
       webpush (~> 1.0)
     rpush-redis (1.2.0)
       modis (>= 3.0, < 5.0)
+    rspec (3.11.0)
+      rspec-core (~> 3.11.0)
+      rspec-expectations (~> 3.11.0)
+      rspec-mocks (~> 3.11.0)
     rspec-core (3.11.0)
       rspec-support (~> 3.11.0)
     rspec-expectations (3.11.0)
@@ -1002,7 +1001,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   gemoji (~> 4.0.0.rc3)
   gibbon (~> 3.4)
   guard (~> 2.18)
-  guard-livereload (~> 2.5)
+  guard-rspec (~> 4.7)
   hairtrigger (~> 0.2.25)
   honeybadger (~> 4.12)
   honeycomb-beeline (~> 2.11.0)
diff --git a/Guardfile b/Guardfile
index 01303d05c..a32825002 100644
--- a/Guardfile
+++ b/Guardfile
@@ -1,25 +1,3 @@
-# A sample Guardfile
-# More info at https://github.com/guard/guard#readme
-
-## Uncomment and set this to only include directories you want to watch
-# directories %w(app lib config test spec features) \
-#  .select{|d| Dir.exists?(d) ? d : UI.warning("Directory #{d} does not exist")}
-
-## Note: if you are using the `directories` clause above and you are not
-## watching the project directory ('.'), then you will want to move
-## the Guardfile to a watched dir and symlink it back, e.g.
-#
-#  $ mkdir config
-#  $ mv Guardfile config/
-#  $ ln -s config/Guardfile .
-#
-# and, you'll have to watch "config/Guardfile" instead of "Guardfile"
-
-# NOTE: The cmd option is now required due to the increasing number of ways
-#       rspec may be run, below are examples of the most common uses.
-#  * bundler: 'bundle exec rspec'
-#  * bundler binstubs: 'bin/rspec'
-#  * 'just' rspec: 'rspec'
 
 ignore([%r{^bin/*}, %r{^config/*}, %r{^db/*}, %r{^lib/*}, %r{^log/*}, %r{^public/*}, %r{^tmp/*}, %r{^node_modules/*}])
 
@@ -74,13 +52,3 @@ guard :rspec, rspec_options do
     Dir[File.join("**/#{m[1]}.feature")][0] || "spec/acceptance"
   end
 end
-
-guard :livereload do
-  watch(%r{app/views/.+\.(erb|haml|slim)$})
-  watch(%r{app/helpers/.+\.rb})
-  watch(%r{public/.+\.(css|js|html)})
-  watch(%r{config/locales/.+\.yml})
-  # Rails Assets Pipeline
-  watch(%r{(app|vendor)(/assets/\w+/(.+\.(css|js|html|png|jpg))).*}) { |m| "/assets/#{m[3]}" }
-  watch(%r{(app|vendor)(/assets/\w+/(.+)\.(scss))}) { |m| "/assets/#{m[3]}.css" }
-end
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