diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 8db393c805dc03a543403f317455a6d83871b99f..c021926a42910fd39e5ca72d9ef54bdc2efc74d5 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ group :development, :test do
   gem 'puppetlabs_spec_helper',  :require => false
   gem 'puppet-lint',             :require => false
   gem 'metadata-json-lint',      :require => false
+  gem 'puppet_facts',            :require => false
 end
 
 if facterversion = ENV['FACTER_GEM_VERSION']
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index 0b4bc99dba162e2b0c2774b57ae9736879fa0581..9675dede2e5eebe9c9e6b12828f531383cf9c27e 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 require 'puppetlabs_spec_helper/module_spec_helper'
+require 'puppet_facts'
+include PuppetFacts
+
+ENV['UNIT_TEST_PLATFORMS'] = 'debian-7-x86_64'
+
 
 RSpec.configure do |c|
   c.include PuppetlabsSpec::Files