diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index a92e4b8468..a5ff61b605 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ node_js:
   - '0.10'
 before_install:
   - "npm install -g npm@2"
+  - "npm install -g gulp"
   - "sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10"
   - "echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list"
   - "sudo apt-get update"