diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ $LOAD_PATH.unshift("#{dir}/")
 $LOAD_PATH.unshift("#{dir}/lib") # a spec-specific test lib dir
 $LOAD_PATH.unshift("#{dir}/../lib")
 
+# Don't want puppet getting the command line arguments for rake or autotest
+ARGV.clear
+
 require 'puppet'
 require 'mocha'
 gem 'rspec', '>=1.2.9'
[#<I>] Avoid passing rake and autotest args to puppet tests

Autotest was failing on puppet apply tests because it was reading
autotest's args as the manifest file and then erroring because it wasn't
a valid file.