A lot of them really are small. There is a tendency for Ruby libraries to be separated into "core" and "feature" gems that you can pull in separately, For examp

A lot of them really are small. There is a tendency for Ruby libraries to be separated into "core" and "feature" gems that you can pull in separately, For example, if you want to use DataMapper, you might be pulling in dm-core, dm-rails, dm-validations, dm-migrations, dm-timestamps, dm-postgres-adapter, dm-mysql-adapter, dm-is-searchable…