no need for rake-compiler to build the gem

Rakefile

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 require 'rubygems'
+require 'spec/rake/spectask'
 
 UPSTREAM  = "ext/v8/upstream"
 SCONS     = "#{UPSTREAM}/scons"
@@ -22,19 +23,8 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |gemspec|
   gemspec.files = manifest.to_a
 end
 
-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. Install it with: gem install rake-compiler"
-end
 
-require 'spec/rake/spectask'
 Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(:spec) do |spec|
   spec.libs << 'lib' << 'spec'
   spec.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb']
@@ -65,4 +55,8 @@ namespace :clean do
   end  
 end
 
+for file in Dir['tasks/*.rake']
+  load file
+end
+
 

tasks/compile.rake

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+begin
+  gem 'rake-compiler', '>= 0.4.1'
+  require "rake/extensiontask"
+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  

tasks/rspec.rake

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-begin
-  require 'spec'
-rescue LoadError
-  require 'rubygems' unless ENV['NO_RUBYGEMS']
-  require 'spec'
-end
-begin
-  require 'spec/rake/spectask'
-rescue LoadError
-  puts <<-EOS
-To use rspec for testing you must install rspec gem:
-    gem install rspec
-EOS
-  exit(0)
-end
-
-desc "Run the specs under spec/models"
-Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new do |t|
-  t.spec_opts = ['--options', "spec/spec.opts"]
-  t.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb']
-end