use rspec-rails 6.1 for official Rails 7.1 support, no need for our local patch anymore

blacklight.gemspec

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_dependency "view_component", '>= 2.66', '< 4'
 
   s.add_development_dependency "rsolr", ">= 1.0.6", "< 3"  # Library for interacting with rSolr.
-  s.add_development_dependency "rspec-rails", "~> 6.0"
+  s.add_development_dependency "rspec-rails", "~> 6.1"
   s.add_development_dependency "rspec-collection_matchers", ">= 1.0"
   s.add_development_dependency 'axe-core-rspec'
   s.add_development_dependency "capybara", '~> 3'

spec/spec_helper.rb

@@ -118,31 +118,3 @@
   # as the one that triggered the failure.
   Kernel.srand config.seed
 end
-
-# RSpec's stub_template method needs a differnet implementation for Rails 7.1, that
-# isn't yet in an rspec-rails release.
-#
-# First rspec-rails tried this:
-#   https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/commit/4d65bea0619955acb15023b9c3f57a3a53183da8
-#
-# But it was subject to this problem:
-#   https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues/2696
-#
-# Below implementation appears to work for our purposes here, so we will patch it in
-# if we are on Rails 7.1+, and  not yet rspec-rails 6.1 which we expect to have it.
-
-if ::Rails.version.to_f >= 7.1 && Gem.loaded_specs["rspec-rails"].version.release < Gem::Version.new('6.1')
-
-  module RSpec
-    module Rails
-      module ViewExampleGroup
-        module ExampleMethods
-          def stub_template(hash)
-            controller.prepend_view_path(StubResolverCache.resolver_for(hash))
-          end
-        end
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-end