auto-require all gems

[jwilkins]

Base.new.methods.count
=> 10692

[garybernhardt]

I was excited to see this! But, after checking it out, I saw that it makes Base.new take 35 seconds on my machine and emit a bunch of warnings along the way:

failbowl:base(950m|jwilkins/master) $ time ruby -e 'require "lib/base"; puts Base.new.methods.count' /Users/grb/.rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2011.03@das/gems/base-0.0.1/lib/base.rb:2: warning: already initialized constant VERSION Notice: for 10x faster LSI support, please install http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/ Neither Pony nor ActionMailer appear to be loaded so email-spec is requiring ActionMailer. /Users/grb/.rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2011.03@das/gems/webby-0.9.4/lib/webby/helpers/tag_helper.rb:7: warning: already initialized constant HTML_ESCAPE 10028 ruby -e 'require "lib/base"; puts Base.new.methods.count' 24.57s user 9.98s system 98% cpu 34.909 total

Though it's just a joke project, I do want base to be fast enough to be easily imported and played with. :) Any ideas?

[garybernhardt]

The blacklisting thing worries me as well. If some gems had to be blacklisted, there are probably a thousand more that would break but didn't happen to be installed when @jwilkins wrote the patch...

[benmanns]

Perhaps we should automatically install all gems as dependencies of Base.

[garybernhardt]

Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.add_dependency("*")
end

[jwilkins]

I added the blacklist because eventmachine caused a segfault. @dkubb, dm-do-adapter loaded eventmachine, so that's why it was added, I think I got overzealous with dm-sqlite-adapter.

However, I started to dig into the problem and realized that eventmachine had just gotten screwed up on my system. Not quite certain how, but after a fresh install of eventmachine, it all seems fine. I'll push a new version in a moment.

[dkubb]

@jwilkins weird that dm-do-adapter would load eventmachine. There's no dependency on it, and it's not referenced anywhere in the Gemfile, gemspec or lib afaik.

[garybernhardt]

I'm still skeptical—a 30 second startup time is punishing. :(

[dkubb]

Can it be paralellized? ;)

[jwilkins]

How fast do you want it to be? I could: threadify it, only add from a whitelist of common gems that don't add too much to startup, only add X gems (randomly, first X). Something else?

[garybernhardt]

I kind of like the idea of requiring everything; it's like a satirical version of Bundler. Maybe as a separate gem so it's not constrained? The name "everything" isn't currently taken... ;)

[mourner]

Though it's just a joke project