On Mar 13, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Martin DeMello wrote:

> On 3/14/07, ara.t.howard / noaa.gov <ara.t.howard / noaa.gov> wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Alex Young wrote:
>>
>> > Personally, I'd prefer that a require 'gemname' just loaded all  
>> files in the
>> > gem's lib directory, but that's probably just me...
>>
>> yikes!  i've got about 80 libs installed!
>>
>> considering that rails, for instance, takes about 1/2 second to  
>> load it's libs,
>> we could be looking at __tens__ of seconds of startup delay for  
>> every ruby
>> script on a large system
>
> I think he meant the files in the individual gem's
> lib/ruby/gems/...../gemname/lib folder, not all the files in
> lib/ruby/gems :)

But we still don't want to do that.  Some libraries provide alternate  
interfaces or features based on which file you require.

James Edward Gray II