Rails: Using Font Awesome

Question

My web designer has provided me with updated fonts/icons that have been added to font awesome - he placed this in a local fonts folder. I was also given a font-awesome.css file.

I copied the fonts folder into my assets directly and put font-awesome.css in assets/stylesheets.

The css is referenced correctly in my code, but none of the icons from the font folder get loaded.

Is there something I need to do to ensure everything gets loaded correctly and/or that the fonts folder is referenced?

Answer 1

first: add app/assets/fonts to the asset path (config/application.rb)

config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("app", "assets", "fonts") 

then move the font files into /assets/fonts (create the folder first)

Now rename the font-awesome.css to font-awesome.css.scss.erb and edit it like this: change:

@font-face {   font-family: "FontAwesome";   src: url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.eot');   src: url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('eot'), url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.svg#FontAwesome')    format('svg');   font-weight: normal;   font-style: normal; } 

to this:

@font-face {   font-family: "FontAwesome";   src: url('<%= asset_path("fontawesome-webfont.eot") %>');   src: url('<%= asset_path("fontawesome-webfont.eot") + "?#iefix" %>') format('eot'), url('<%= asset_path("fontawesome-webfont.woff") %>') format('woff'), url('<%= asset_path("fontawesome-webfont.ttf") %>') format('truetype'), url('<%= asset_path("fontawesome-webfont.svg") + "#FontAwesome" %>') format('svg');   font-weight: normal;   font-style: normal; } 

Finally: check all resources are loaded correctly (with Firebug or Chrome Inspector)

Answer 2

There is now an easier way, just add gem "font-awesome-rails" to your Gemfile and run bundle install.

Then in your application.css, include the css file:

/*  *= require font-awesome  */ 

It includes the font-awesome into your asset pipeline automatically. Done. Start using it :)

For more information, check the font-awesome-rails documentation.