Why can't I see my external facts from inside a Ruby script?

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Eric Rodriguez

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May 5, 2016, 8:08:51 PM5/5/16

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Running Facter v2.4.6, Puppet 3.8.6 on Ubuntu Trusty

One Puppet master host and one Agent

I have a custom Puppet report and I'd like to read some of my external Facts from within this report. I can see the external Fact from the cli and ALSO when running:

ruby -e "require 'facter'; puts Facter.value(:external_fact)"

I don't understand why this is. My external facts are in /etc/facter/facts.d/external.json.

Any idea what I am doing wrong here? Why can't I see this custom Fact from a Puppet report?