diff --git a/activeresource/Rakefile b/activeresource/Rakefile
index bf7bbb0201cdd4fac495b47cdf8ca5eb9b55eecf..c3cde26b6c966d0877d7a4655f4aee5893b79401 100644
--- a/activeresource/Rakefile
+++ b/activeresource/Rakefile
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ require 'rake/testtask'
 require 'rake/rdoctask'
 require 'rake/packagetask'
 require 'rake/gempackagetask'
-require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
 
 require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'lib', 'active_resource', 'version')
 
@@ -117,12 +116,14 @@ end
 
 desc "Publish the beta gem"
 task :pgem => [:package] do 
+  require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
   Rake::SshFilePublisher.new("gems.rubyonrails.org", "/u/sites/gems/gems", "pkg", "#{PKG_FILE_NAME}.gem").upload
   `ssh gems.rubyonrails.org '/u/sites/gems/gemupdate.sh'`
 end
 
 desc "Publish the API documentation"
 task :pdoc => [:rdoc] do 
+  require 'rake/contrib/sshpublisher'
   Rake::SshDirPublisher.new("wrath.rubyonrails.org", "public_html/ar", "doc").upload
 end