config.gem vs require 'somegem'

I am very confused by the config.gem statement in 2.1

If I put config.gem 'pdf-writer' in my environment.rb I get the following error when I try to instanciate a PDF object in my controller with the statement pdf = PDF::Writer.new

uninitialized constant CollectionsController::PDF

so I try putting require 'pdf/writer' in my environment.rb and the application fails to load with:

no such file to load -- pdf-writer /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/ rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' /usr/local/lib/ site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require' /usr/lib/ruby/ gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb: 509:in `require' etc ..

The gem is in my vendor directory. I would like to get to the bottom of this as I have had similar problems with gems in the past and I dont really understand whether I still need a 'require' when I have the 'config.gem'

Cheers George

Same problem for me.

I have installed 'rubyist-aasm' for restful_authentication, but when I insert config.gem 'rubyist-aasm', I get an error message.