diff --git a/cloudinary.gemspec b/cloudinary.gemspec
index fc2e5304..6bcb7ecc 100644
--- a/cloudinary.gemspec
+++ b/cloudinary.gemspec
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_development_dependency "actionpack", ">= 6.1.7", "< 9.0.0"
   s.add_development_dependency "nokogiri", ">= 1.12.5", "< 2.0.0"
   s.add_development_dependency "rake", ">= 13.0.6", "< 14.0.0"
-  s.add_development_dependency "sqlite3", ">= 1.4.2", "< 3.0.0"
+  s.add_development_dependency "sqlite3", ">= 1.4.2", RUBY_VERSION >= "3.1" ? "< 3.0.0" : "< 2.0.0"
   s.add_development_dependency "rspec", ">= 3.11.2", "< 4.0.0"
   s.add_development_dependency "rspec-retry", ">= 0.6.2", "< 1.0.0"
   s.add_development_dependency "railties", ">= 6.0.4", "< 9.0.0"