diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index d965fa90..b470b765 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ source 'https://rubygems.org'
 group :development, :test do
   gem 'puppetlabs_spec_helper', :require => false
   gem 'puppet-lint', '~> 0.3.2'
+  gem 'metadata-json-lint'
+  gem 'puppet-syntax'
   gem 'rake', '10.1.1'
   gem 'rspec', '< 2.99'
   gem 'json'
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 2e74217e..c022216c 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -1,7 +1,17 @@
 require 'puppetlabs_spec_helper/rake_tasks'
 require 'puppet-lint/tasks/puppet-lint'
+require 'puppet-syntax/tasks/puppet-syntax'
 
 PuppetLint.configuration.fail_on_warnings = true
 PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_80chars')
 PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_class_parameter_defaults')
 PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_only_variable_string')
+
+exclude_tests_paths = ['pkg/**/*','vendor/**/*']
+PuppetLint.configuration.ignore_paths = exclude_tests_paths
+PuppetSyntax.exclude_paths = exclude_tests_paths
+
+desc "Lint metadata.json file"
+task :metadata do
+  sh "metadata-json-lint metadata.json"
+end