diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 69911f74b..8ef2a7a54 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
 
 gem 'eventmachine'
 gem 'thin'
-gem 'sinatra', '~> 2.0.1'
-gem 'rack', '~> 2.0.4'
-gem 'rack-protection', '~>2.0.0'
+gem 'sinatra'
+gem 'rack', '~> 1.6.5'
+gem 'rack-protection', '~> 1.5.4'
 gem 'em-websocket' # WebSocket support
 gem 'uglifier'
 gem 'mime-types'
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ gem 'espeak-ruby', '>= 1.0.4' # Text-to-Voice
 gem 'nokogiri', '>= 1.7'
 gem 'rake'
 
-
 if RUBY_PLATFORM.downcase.include?('linux')
   gem 'therubyracer', '~> 0.12.2', '<= 0.12.2'
 end
@@ -72,8 +71,6 @@ end
 # DNS extension
 group :ext_dns do
   gem 'rubydns', '~> 0.7.3'
-  # rubydns requires rainbow
-  # which requires rake, but doesn't specify rake as a dependency
 end
 
 # network extension
@@ -91,11 +88,13 @@ group :test do
   if ENV['BEEF_TEST']
     gem 'test-unit'
     gem 'test-unit-full'
-    gem 'curb'
-    gem 'selenium'
-    # selenium-webdriver 3.x is incompatible with Firefox version 48 and prior
-    gem 'selenium-webdriver', '~> 2.53.4'
     gem 'rspec'
+    # curb gem requires curl libraries
+    # sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
+    gem 'curb'
+    # selenium-webdriver 3.x is incompatible with Firefox version 48 and prior
+    gem 'selenium'
+    gem 'selenium-webdriver', '~> 2.53.4'
     gem 'bundler-audit'
     # nokogirl is needed by capybara which may require one of the below commands
     # sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 1af190e9e..63d551077 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # See the file 'doc/COPYING' for copying permission
 #
 require 'yaml'
-require 'pry-byebug'
+#require 'pry-byebug'
 
 task :default => ["quick"]
 
diff --git a/test/api/1333_auth_rate.rb b/test/api/1333_auth_rate.rb
index 6dd983b4f..7205c94d9 100644
--- a/test/api/1333_auth_rate.rb
+++ b/test/api/1333_auth_rate.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 require 'test/unit'
 
-require 'pry-byebug'
+#require 'pry-byebug'
 require 'rest-client'
 require 'json'
 require 'optparse'