feat: Autoload Twilio::REST and Twilio::HTTP #558
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Currently
Twilio::REST
andTwilio::HTTP
are loaded with file globs. This works great, but it is slow. Especially forTwilio::REST
which has lots of files. For applications using this gem, bundler willrequire "twilio-ruby"
and load the entire gem at once.Ruby's
autoload
feature can help with this. Autoload defers loading modules until they are actually needed/referenced. By autoloadingTwilio::REST
andTwilio::HTTP
, the require-time of this library is reduced from~400ms
to~25ms
. You can verify this by wrapping the require in your spec helper with a benchmark block:This is what the gem require currently looks like in our application, with the majority of time taken by requiring

Twilio::REST
:After this patch, it did not show up in our profiles.
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