How do I embed a gather environment within a custom environment?

Question

I've tried defining the following custom environment, but I get errors:

\begin{gather} ended by \end{solution} etc...

Here's a MWE showing my problem:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[fleqn]{mathtools}

\newenvironment{solution}{%  <-Solution
  \par\addvspace{1em}
  \itshape{Solution:}\par\begin{gather}}
  {\end{gather}\par\normalfont\hfill\qed\par\addvspace{\medskipamount}}%

\begin{document}
  \begin{gather}
    testing
  \end{gather}

  %% This does not work:
  \begin{solution}
    testing
  \end{solution}
\end{document}

Answer 1

Use the command-form of the gather environment. That is, \gather...\endgather instead of \begin{gather}...\end{gather}.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[fleqn]{mathtools}% http://ctan.org/pkg/mathtools
\newenvironment{solution}{%  <-Solution
  \par\addvspace{1em}
  \textit{Solution:}\par\gather}
  {\endgather\par\normalfont\hfill\qed\par\addvspace{\medskipamount}}%

\begin{document}
Some text
\begin{gather}
  f(x)=ax^2+bx+c
\end{gather}
Some text
\begin{solution}
  f(x)=ax^2+bx+c
\end{solution}
Some text
\end{document}

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Addition by OP:

Ultimately I ended up using gather instead, but it works just the same... using \gather and \endgather. But I also wanted to find a way to get rid of the equation numbers. A bit of searching allowed me to find out that \align* and \endalign* do not work as expected, so instead you have to use \csname align*\endcsname and \csname endalign*\endcsname