From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-06-14T07:21:58+09:00
Subject: Gemspec option to prevent auto-require?

Hello folks,

I'm wondering if anyone knows an option I can put in my gemspec to
prevent rubygems from requiring all my dependencies as soon as I
require my library.

It's okay that gems will inforce their dependencies, (throw an error
if the gems arent there), but I don't want them all to load at once.

In my library, I've got a bunch of requires in my methods, and I want
them to require those libs only when they are called.

so for instance :

require "rubygems"
require "ruport"  #depends on fastercsv, but should not load it at this point

Ruport::DataSet.load("foo.csv") #now fastercsv should be loaded

This works fine when running via ruby -Ilib over my sources, but when
I use it as a gem, it autoloads all it's deps, which takes between 3
and 5 seconds and is really annoying.

Suggestions?
My Rakefile with gemspec is here:
http://rubyurl.com/nb2