Unable to specify config.gem in Rails applications for rodf

[mezza]

I normally like to ensure the deployment environments have the correct gems installed by specifying config.gem in the environment.rb file.

However, for the rodf gem this doesn't seem to work.

I gather that config.gem is deprecated in Rails 3, but I don't understand why it doesn't work for the rodf gem in Rails 2.x.x applications.

Is there a simple solution? I'm not familiar enough with the structure of a gem package to attempt to solve this.

[thiagoarrais]

The problem is that Rails expects gems to provide a top-level library directory with the same name as the gem, which rodf doesn't. Its top-level library dir is odf, not rodf.

I managed to get config.gem working by using this line:

config.gem "rodf", :lib => false, :version => '>= 0.1.4'

and requiring the needed files inside the app.