Font Awesome + Less + Rails Asset Pipeline

With LESS and fonts from Font Awesome, less-rails-fontawesome is a gem to integrate Font Awesome to your Rails application. It works wit Rails 3.2 and 4.

Updates

May 16, 2013: Now using Font Awesome 3.1.1 and works with Rails 4!

March 23, 2013: Now using Font Awesome 3.0.2!

January 2, 2013: Now using Font Awesome 3.0!

June 6 2012: Now using Font Awesome 2.0!

Installation

Add the gem to your assets group in the Gemfile:

gem 'therubyracer'
gem 'less'
gem 'less-rails'
gem 'less-rails-fontawesome'

Then in your app/assets/stylesheets/application.css.less:

@import 'font-awesome/font-awesome';
@import 'font-awesome/font-awesome-ie7';

You can also use it with the less-rails-bootstrap gem. Just import fontawesome right after twitter/bootstrap:

@import 'twitter/bootstrap';
@import 'font-awesome/font-awesome';
@import 'font-awesome/font-awesome-ie7';

Helper methods

To place Font Awesome icon add i element and set its class attribute to a icon name, for example:

<i class="icon-trash"></i>

To ease placing icons in Rails link_to helper use the ilink_to helper method.

For example, to place the icon-upload-alt icon next to Edit write something like:

<%= ilink_to "upload-alt", "Edit", edit_post_path(post), class: 'btn btn-mini' %>

or to place icon-trash next to text Destroy button write:

<%= ilink_to "trash", "Destroy", post, confirm: 'Are you sure?', method: :delete, class: 'btn btn-mini btn-danger'%>

(precede the link text with the icon name stripped off icon- prefix)

License

The font and LESS from Font Awesome are under CC-BY-3.0.

Others are under MIT license.