Eric Hodel has announced that “RubyGems’ Gem Activation is Changing.” In short, edge RubyGems and RubyGems 1.6 will ‘lazily activate’ gems meaning their load paths won’t be added to $LOAD_PATH until needed. Eric is inviting people to help test the new approach. In other news, RubyGems will no longer ‘chew on RAM’ either..