diff --git a/app/models/service.rb b/app/models/service.rb
index 92643c790..eb0d48a1a 100644
--- a/app/models/service.rb
+++ b/app/models/service.rb
@@ -24,5 +24,5 @@ class Service
     return truncated
   end
 end
-require 'app/models/services/facebook'
-require 'app/models/services/twitter'
+require File.join(Rails.root, 'app/models/services/facebook')
+require File.join(Rails.root, 'app/models/services/twitter')
diff --git a/spec/lib/tasks/migrations_spec.rb b/spec/lib/tasks/migrations_spec.rb
index 42e8c9c61..d824ac1f2 100644
--- a/spec/lib/tasks/migrations_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/tasks/migrations_spec.rb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ describe 'migrations' do
       require "rake"
       @rake = Rake::Application.new
       Rake.application = @rake
-      Rake.application.rake_require "lib/tasks/migrations"
+      Rake.application.rake_require "lib/tasks/migrations", [Rails.root]
       Rake::Task.define_task(:environment)
       @rake['migrations:service_reclassify'].invoke   
 
diff --git a/spec/models/jobs/socket_webfinger_spec.rb b/spec/models/jobs/socket_webfinger_spec.rb
index 3bfd0cd40..060744442 100644
--- a/spec/models/jobs/socket_webfinger_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/jobs/socket_webfinger_spec.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-require 'spec/spec_helper'
+require File.join(Rails.root, 'spec/spec_helper')
 
 describe Jobs::SocketWebfinger do
   before do