font-awesome-rails provides the Font-Awesome web fonts and stylesheets as a Rails engine for use with the asset pipeline.
Add this to your Gemfile:
gem "font-awesome-rails"and run bundle install.
In your application.css, include the css file:
/*
*= require font-awesome
*/Then restart your webserver if it was previously running.
Congrats! You now have scalable vector icon support. Pick an icon and check out the FontAwesome Examples.
If you prefer SCSS, add this to your
application.css.scss file:
@import "font-awesome";If you use the
Sass indented syntax,
add this to your application.css.sass file:
@import font-awesomeIf you must support IE7, use a
conditional comment to
provide the font-awesome-ie7.min.css stylesheet to Internet Explorer.
<!--[if lt IE 8]>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "font-awesome-ie7.min.css", media: "all" %>
<![endif]-->In haml, that would look like:
/[if lt IE 8]
= stylesheet_link_tag "font-awesome-ie7.min.css", media: "all"Either way, Make sure that font-awesome-ie7.min.css is part of config.assets.precompile in your environments/production.rb.
config.assets.precompile += %w( font-awesome-ie7.min.css )Alternatively, if you already have a CSS file provided by a conditional
comment (say, application-ie.css), you can include the ie7 styleshet in
that:
/*
*= require font-awesome-ie7.min
*/There are also some helpers (fa_icon and fa_stacked_icon) that make your
views icontastic!.
fa_icon "camera-retro"
# => <i class="icon-camera-retro"></i>
fa_icon "camera-retro", text: "Take a photo"
# => <i class="icon-camera-retro"></i> Take a photo
fa_icon "quote-left 4x muted", class: "pull-left"
# => <i class="icon-quote-left icon-4x icon-muted pull-left"></i>
content_tag(:li, fa_icon("ok li", text: "Bulleted list item"))
# => <li><i class="icon-ok icon-li"></i> Bulleted list item</li>fa_stacked_icon "twitter", base: "check-empty"
# => <span class="icon-stack">
# => <i class="icon-check-empty icon-stack-base"></i>
# => <i class="icon-twitter"></i>
# => </span>
fa_stacked_icon "terminal light", base: "sign-blank", class: "pull-right", text: "Hi!"
# => <span class="icon-stack pull-right">
# => <i class="icon-sign-blank icon-stack-base"></i>
# => <i class="icon-terminal icon-light"></i>
# => </span> Hi!Note: In Rails 3.2, make sure font-awesome-rails is outside the bundler asset group so that these helpers are automatically loaded in production environments.
| Version | FontAwesome SHA1 | Notes / Other additions |
|---------+------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 0.1.0 | 378b2d7 | Simplest packaging as a gem as possible |
| 0.2.0 | 563a6f3 | Repackaged after their new release |
| 0.2.1 | 563a6f3 | Forgot I had patched the css to reflect the font assetified location. |
| 0.3.0 | (unknown) | (sorry, will make sure that doesn't happen again) |
| 0.4.0 | 05e5e5b | Pullup request to 2.0 release of font-awesome |
| 0.5.0 | contrib | (christhekeele) Attempt to prepare request to 3.0 release of font-awesome |
| 3.0.1.0 | 7d173f2 | 3.0.1 release (bug fixes and alignment improvements) |
| 3.0.2.0 | 13d5dd3 | 3.0.2 release (better IE7 rendering) |
| 3.1.0.0 | a4612d8 | 3.1.0 release (new icons) |
| 3.1.1.0 | 949a765 | 3.1.1 release (icon fixes) |
| 3.1.1.1 | 949a765 | asset_path -> font_path usage; Now requires Rails >= 3.2. |
| 3.1.1.2 | 949a765 | vendor/assets -> app/assets; Improved Rails 4 support |
| 3.1.1.3 | 949a765 | repackaged gem; cleaned out extraneous files |
| 3.2.0.0 | a9065a1 | 3.2.0 release (new icons) |
| 3.2.1.0 | b1a8ad4 | 3.2.1 release (stylesheet fixes) |
| 3.2.1.1 | b1a8ad4 | renamed Font::Awesome module to FontAwesome to avoid Font name conflicts |
| 3.2.1.2 | b1a8ad4 | fixed suffix on svg font url during asset precompilation |
| 3.2.1.3 | b1a8ad4 | added `fa_icon` and `fa_stacked_icon` view helpers |
note on version 0.2.0: FontAwesome now includes scss and sass files, but when I used them instead of the plain ol css file included in the project, it wanted some compass libraries. I'm a fan of compass, but including an entire tool like that in order to generate a @font_face tag seems a little much... I don't want this gem to require compass for such a trivial thing, so we are staying on the vanilla css file for now.
Running on Rails 3.1? Make sure to use version 3.1.1.0 or earlier.
- The Font Awesome font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License.
- Font Awesome CSS files are licensed under the MIT License.
- The remainder of the font-awesome-rails project is licensed under the MIT License.