How to turn off w3c in chromedriver to address the error unknown command: Cannot call non W3C standard command while in W3C

With version 75 of Chrome just released, our tests no longer run properly. They give the stacktrace pasted below. We are using ruby on rails v. 5.1.6.2 with rspec, selenium-webdriver 3.8.0.

Stacktrace:

Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownCommandError:
            unknown command: Cannot call non W3C standard command while in W3C mode
          # 0   chromedriver                        0x000000010c46e8e9 chromedriver + 3594473
          # 1   chromedriver                        0x000000010c3fe543 chromedriver + 3134787
          # 2   chromedriver                        0x000000010c1aa29f chromedriver + 692895
          # 3   chromedriver                        0x000000010c11a691 chromedriver + 104081
          # 4   chromedriver                        0x000000010c11b7d5 chromedriver + 108501
          # 5   chromedriver                        0x000000010c42d555 chromedriver + 3327317
          # 6   chromedriver                        0x000000010c438e60 chromedriver + 3374688
          # 7   chromedriver                        0x000000010c438bf8 chromedriver + 3374072
          # 8   chromedriver                        0x000000010c40cd39 chromedriver + 3194169
          # 9   chromedriver                        0x000000010c4396d8 chromedriver + 3376856
          # 10  chromedriver                        0x000000010c420f27 chromedriver + 3276583
          # 11  chromedriver                        0x000000010c456064 chromedriver + 3493988
          # 12  chromedriver                        0x000000010c474617 chromedriver + 3618327
          # 13  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff7744c2eb _pthread_body + 126
          # 14  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff7744f249 _pthread_start + 66
          # 15  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff7744b40d thread_start + 13
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:69:in `assert_ok'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:32:in `initialize'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:81:in `new'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:81:in `create_response'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:104:in `request'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:59:in `call'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:166:in `execute'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/oss/bridge.rb:579:in `execute'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/oss/bridge.rb:526:in `element_displayed?'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/element.rb:199:in `displayed?'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/capybara-2.17.0/lib/capybara/selenium/node.rb:148:in `visible?'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/capybara-2.17.0/lib/capybara/node/element.rb:269:in `block in visible?'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/capybara-2.17.0/lib/capybara/node/base.rb:81:in `synchronize'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/capybara-2.17.0/lib/capybara/node/element.rb:269:in `visible?'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/capybara-2.17.0/lib/capybara/queries/selector_query.rb:84:in `matches_filters?'
          # /Users/julie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/capybara-2.17.0/lib/capybara/result.rb:29:in `block in initialize'

Our driver configuration:

File.write(LOG_FILE_PATH, '')
Selenium::WebDriver.logger.level = :debug
Selenium::WebDriver.logger.output = LOG_FILE_PATH
Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
  # from https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/3738
  capabilities = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome(loggingPrefs: {browser: 'ALL'})
  options = Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome::Options.new
  options.add_argument '--disable-infobars' # hide info bar about chrome automating test
  # if we don't use this flag, every selenium test will die with the error:
  # "unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally"
  options.add_argument '--no-sandbox'
  options.add_argument '--headless' if ENV.fetch("HEADLESS", nil).present?
  options.add_argument '--window-size=1600,2400'
  options.add_argument '-–allow-file-access-from-files' # TODO Julie - may help with file specs?
  options.add_preference('homepage', 'about:blank') # TODO is this working?
  options.add_preference('profile.default_content_settings.popups', 0)
  options.add_preference('download.default_directory', DownloadHelpers::PATH.to_s)
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(
    app,
    clear_local_storage: true,
    clear_session_storage: true,
    browser: :chrome,
    options: options,
    desired_capabilities: capabilities,
  )
end

UPDATE:

I was able to get our tests to work temporarily using capabilities = { "chromeOptions" => {'w3c' => false} }.

After updating chromedriver, we began receiving the error "unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist". In order to fix this problem, we upgraded our selenium-webdriver gem to 3.142.3 and this fixed the issue, allowing us to use w3c without any additional parameters.