diff --git a/deployment_scripts/puppet/manifests/Gemfile b/deployment_scripts/puppet/manifests/Gemfile
index ed38f25..963bbad 100644
--- a/deployment_scripts/puppet/manifests/Gemfile
+++ b/deployment_scripts/puppet/manifests/Gemfile
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ source 'https://rubygems.org'
 group :development, :test do
   gem 'rake'
   gem "puppet", ENV['PUPPET_VERSION'] || '~> 3.4.0'
-  gem 'puppetlabs_spec_helper'
+  # Newer puppetlabs_spec_helper depends on rubocop-rspec that requires ruby >= 2.2.0
+  gem 'puppetlabs_spec_helper', '~> 1.1.1'
 end
 
diff --git a/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/lma_infra_alerting/Gemfile b/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/lma_infra_alerting/Gemfile
index b85b0a0..585f6b7 100644
--- a/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/lma_infra_alerting/Gemfile
+++ b/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/lma_infra_alerting/Gemfile
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ group :development, :test do
   gem 'rspec'
   gem 'rspec-puppet'
   gem 'rspec-puppet-facts'
-  gem 'puppetlabs_spec_helper'
+  # Newer puppetlabs_spec_helper depends on rubocop-rspec that requires ruby >= 2.2.0
+  gem 'puppetlabs_spec_helper', '~> 1.1.1'
   gem 'metadata-json-lint'
 end
diff --git a/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/nagios/Gemfile b/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/nagios/Gemfile
index b85b0a0..585f6b7 100644
--- a/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/nagios/Gemfile
+++ b/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/nagios/Gemfile
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ group :development, :test do
   gem 'rspec'
   gem 'rspec-puppet'
   gem 'rspec-puppet-facts'
-  gem 'puppetlabs_spec_helper'
+  # Newer puppetlabs_spec_helper depends on rubocop-rspec that requires ruby >= 2.2.0
+  gem 'puppetlabs_spec_helper', '~> 1.1.1'
   gem 'metadata-json-lint'
 end