diff --git a/tasks/compile.rake b/tasks/compile.rake
index f7c0420..0f69ddc 100644
--- a/tasks/compile.rake
+++ b/tasks/compile.rake
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 begin
   gem 'rake-compiler', '>= 0.4.1'
   require "rake/extensiontask"
+  Rake::ExtensionTask.new("v8", $gemspec) do |ext|    
+    ext.lib_dir = "lib/v8"
+    ext.source_pattern = "*.{cpp,h}"
+  end  
 rescue LoadError
   puts "Rake Compiler not available. You won't be able to compile with rake, unless you gem install rake-compiler"
 end
- 
-Rake::ExtensionTask.new("v8", $gemspec) do |ext|    
-  ext.lib_dir = "lib/v8"
-  ext.source_pattern = "*.{cpp,h}"
-end  
+ 
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