diff --git a/lib/puppet/module_tool/skeleton/templates/generator/Gemfile b/lib/puppet/module_tool/skeleton/templates/generator/Gemfile
index 7bd34cda7..3b888ac99 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/module_tool/skeleton/templates/generator/Gemfile
+++ b/lib/puppet/module_tool/skeleton/templates/generator/Gemfile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 source 'https://rubygems.org'
 
 puppetversion = ENV.key?('PUPPET_VERSION') ? "= #{ENV['PUPPET_VERSION']}" : ['>= 3.3']
 gem 'puppet', puppetversion
 gem 'puppetlabs_spec_helper', '>= 0.1.0'
-gem 'puppet-lint', '>= 0.3.2'
+gem 'puppet-lint', '>= 1.0.0'
 gem 'facter', '>= 1.7.0'
diff --git a/lib/puppet/module_tool/skeleton/templates/generator/Rakefile b/lib/puppet/module_tool/skeleton/templates/generator/Rakefile
index d1e11f798..5377fd31a 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/module_tool/skeleton/templates/generator/Rakefile
+++ b/lib/puppet/module_tool/skeleton/templates/generator/Rakefile
@@ -1,18 +1,19 @@
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'puppetlabs_spec_helper/rake_tasks'
 require 'puppet-lint/tasks/puppet-lint'
 PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_80chars')
+PuppetLint.configuration.relative = true
 PuppetLint.configuration.ignore_paths = ["spec/**/*.pp", "pkg/**/*.pp"]
 
 desc "Validate manifests, templates, and ruby files"
 task :validate do
   Dir['manifests/**/*.pp'].each do |manifest|
     sh "puppet parser validate --noop #{manifest}"
   end
   Dir['spec/**/*.rb','lib/**/*.rb'].each do |ruby_file|
     sh "ruby -c #{ruby_file}" unless ruby_file =~ /spec\/fixtures/
   end
   Dir['templates/**/*.erb'].each do |template|
     sh "erb -P -x -T '-' #{template} | ruby -c"
   end
 end