Lazier Rakefile requires to avoid needing full rake gem on 1.9

Rakefile

 require 'rake'
 require 'rake/rdoctask'
-require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
 
 env = %(PKG_BUILD="#{ENV['PKG_BUILD']}") if ENV['PKG_BUILD']
 
@@ -74,6 +73,7 @@ end
 
 desc "Publish API docs for Rails as a whole and for each component"
 task :pdoc => :rdoc do
+  require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
   Rake::SshDirPublisher.new("wrath.rubyonrails.org", "public_html/api", "doc/rdoc").upload
   PROJECTS.each do |project|
     system %(cd #{project} && #{env} #{$0} pdoc)

actionmailer/Rakefile

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ require 'rake/testtask'
 require 'rake/rdoctask'
 require 'rake/packagetask'
 require 'rake/gempackagetask'
-require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
 require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'lib', 'action_mailer', 'version')
 
 PKG_BUILD     = ENV['PKG_BUILD'] ? '.' + ENV['PKG_BUILD'] : ''
@@ -76,12 +75,14 @@ end
 
 desc "Publish the API documentation"
 task :pgem => [:package] do 
+  require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
   Rake::SshFilePublisher.new("gems.rubyonrails.org", "/u/sites/gems/gems", "pkg", "#{PKG_FILE_NAME}.gem").upload
   `ssh gems.rubyonrails.org '/u/sites/gems/gemupdate.sh'`
 end
 
 desc "Publish the API documentation"
 task :pdoc => [:rdoc] do 
+  require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
   Rake::SshDirPublisher.new("wrath.rubyonrails.org", "public_html/am", "doc").upload
 end
 

actionpack/Rakefile

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ require 'rake/testtask'
 require 'rake/rdoctask'
 require 'rake/packagetask'
 require 'rake/gempackagetask'
-require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
 require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'lib', 'action_pack', 'version')
 
 PKG_BUILD     = ENV['PKG_BUILD'] ? '.' + ENV['PKG_BUILD'] : ''
@@ -136,12 +135,14 @@ task :update_js => [ :update_scriptaculous ]
 
 desc "Publish the API documentation"
 task :pgem => [:package] do 
+  require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
   Rake::SshFilePublisher.new("gems.rubyonrails.org", "/u/sites/gems/gems", "pkg", "#{PKG_FILE_NAME}.gem").upload
   `ssh gems.rubyonrails.org '/u/sites/gems/gemupdate.sh'`
 end
 
 desc "Publish the API documentation"
 task :pdoc => [:rdoc] do 
+  require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
   Rake::SshDirPublisher.new("wrath.rubyonrails.org", "public_html/ap", "doc").upload
 end
 

activerecord/Rakefile

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ require 'rake/testtask'
 require 'rake/rdoctask'
 require 'rake/packagetask'
 require 'rake/gempackagetask'
-require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
 
 require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'lib', 'active_record', 'version')
 require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)) + "/test/config"
@@ -231,12 +230,14 @@ end
 
 desc "Publish the beta gem"
 task :pgem => [:package] do
+  require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
   Rake::SshFilePublisher.new("gems.rubyonrails.org", "/u/sites/gems/gems", "pkg", "#{PKG_FILE_NAME}.gem").upload
   `ssh gems.rubyonrails.org '/u/sites/gems/gemupdate.sh'`
 end
 
 desc "Publish the API documentation"
 task :pdoc => [:rdoc] do
+  require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
   Rake::SshDirPublisher.new("wrath.rubyonrails.org", "public_html/ar", "doc").upload
 end
 

activeresource/Rakefile

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ require 'rake/testtask'
 require 'rake/rdoctask'
 require 'rake/packagetask'
 require 'rake/gempackagetask'
-require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
 
 require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'lib', 'active_resource', 'version')
 
@@ -117,12 +116,14 @@ end
 
 desc "Publish the beta gem"
 task :pgem => [:package] do 
+  require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
   Rake::SshFilePublisher.new("gems.rubyonrails.org", "/u/sites/gems/gems", "pkg", "#{PKG_FILE_NAME}.gem").upload
   `ssh gems.rubyonrails.org '/u/sites/gems/gemupdate.sh'`
 end
 
 desc "Publish the API documentation"
 task :pdoc => [:rdoc] do 
+  require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
   Rake::SshDirPublisher.new("wrath.rubyonrails.org", "public_html/ar", "doc").upload
 end
 

railties/Rakefile

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ require 'rake'
 require 'rake/testtask'
 require 'rake/rdoctask'
 require 'rake/gempackagetask'
-require 'rake/contrib/rubyforgepublisher'
 
 require 'date'
 require 'rbconfig'
@@ -355,6 +354,7 @@ end
 
 desc "Publish the release files to RubyForge."
 task :release => [ :package ] do
+  require 'rake/contrib/rubyforgepublisher'
   require 'rubyforge'
 
   packages = %w( gem ).collect{ |ext| "pkg/#{PKG_NAME}-#{PKG_VERSION}.#{ext}" }