Rails: Using Font Awesome

I offer another answer, in this one you won't have to worry about gems or paths or any of those overkill solutions. Just paste this line in your application.html.erb (or whatever file your layout is)

<head>
...
<link href="//stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>

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)


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.

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