diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 001e824..82208b9 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -26,5 +26,6 @@ gem 'puppet-lint-variable_contains_upcase'
 
 # rspec must be v2 for ruby 1.8.7
 if RUBY_VERSION >= '1.8.7' and RUBY_VERSION < '1.9'
+  gem 'rake', '~> 10.0'
   gem 'rspec', '~> 2.0'
 end
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index e2c6d52..f2f0456 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 require 'puppetlabs_spec_helper/rake_tasks'
 require 'puppet-lint/tasks/puppet-lint'
 PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_80chars')
+PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_140chars')
 PuppetLint.configuration.relative = true
 PuppetLint.configuration.ignore_paths = ["spec/**/*.pp", "pkg/**/*.pp"]