diff --git a/lib/puppet-languageserver-sidecar/puppet_environment_monkey_patches.rb b/lib/puppet-languageserver-sidecar/puppet_environment_monkey_patches.rb
index d9e70eec..56acb2a2 100644
--- a/lib/puppet-languageserver-sidecar/puppet_environment_monkey_patches.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet-languageserver-sidecar/puppet_environment_monkey_patches.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ class Directories
     # environment, create a new Puppet::Node::Environment object for the workspace
     alias_method :original_get, :get
     def get(name)
-      if name == PuppetLanguageServerSidecar::PuppetHelper::SIDECAR_PUPPET_ENVIRONMENT
+      if name.intern == PuppetLanguageServerSidecar::PuppetHelper::SIDECAR_PUPPET_ENVIRONMENT.intern
         env_symbol = name.intern
         setting_values = Puppet.settings.values(env_symbol, Puppet.settings.preferred_run_mode)
         env = Puppet::Node::Environment.create(
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def get(name)
     # from the workspace.
     alias_method :original_get_conf, :get_conf
     def get_conf(name)
-      if name == PuppetLanguageServerSidecar::PuppetHelper::SIDECAR_PUPPET_ENVIRONMENT.intern
+      if name.intern == PuppetLanguageServerSidecar::PuppetHelper::SIDECAR_PUPPET_ENVIRONMENT.intern
         conf = Puppet::Settings::EnvironmentConf.load_from(PuppetLanguageServerSidecar::Workspace.root_path, @global_module_path)
         # Unfortunately the environment.conf expects OS style delimiters which means
         # it fails if written for windows and read on Unix and vice versa. So we just
diff --git a/lib/puppet_languageserver.rb b/lib/puppet_languageserver.rb
index 907ab3af..2a1cf1fd 100644
--- a/lib/puppet_languageserver.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet_languageserver.rb
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ def self.require_gems(options)
     begin
       require 'lsp/lsp'
       require 'puppet'
+      require 'facter'
     rescue LoadError => e
       log_message(:error, "Error while loading a critical gem: #{e} #{e.backtrace}")
       return