Using fonts with Rails asset pipeline

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I have some fonts being configured in my Scss file like so    font-face     font-family   Icomoon     src  asset-url  icoMoon eot  iefix   font  format  embedded-opentype           asset-url  icoMoon woff   font  format  woff           asset-url  icoMoon ttf   font   format  truetype           asset-url  icoMoon svg Icomoon   font  format  svg        The actual font file are stored in  app assets fonts   I have added config assets paths  lt  lt  Rails root join  app    assets    fonts   to my application rb file  and the compile CSS source is as follows    font-face     font-family   Icomoon     src  url  assets icoMoon eot  iefix  format  embedded-opentype    url  assets icoMoon woff  format  woff    url  assets icoMoon ttf  format  truetype    url  assets icoMoon svg Icomoon  format  svg        But when I run the app the font files are not being found  The logs      Started GET   assets icoMoon ttf  for 127 0 0 1 at 2012-06-05 23 21 17  0100   Served asset  icoMoon ttf - 404 Not Found  13ms    Why isn t the asset pipeline flattening the font files down into just  assets   Any ideas people   Kind regards  Neil  Extra info   When checking the rails console for assets paths and assetprecompile I get the following   1 9 2p320  001  gt  y Rails application config assets precompile --- -  ruby object Proc    -  ruby regexp            A application   css js    -  svg -  eot -  woff -  ttf   gt  nil    1 9 2p320  002  gt  y Rails application config assets paths --- -  Users neiltonge code neiltonge app assets fonts -  Users neiltonge code neiltonge app assets images -  Users neiltonge code neiltonge app assets javascripts -  Users neiltonge code neiltonge app assets stylesheets -  Users neiltonge code neiltonge vendor assets images -  Users neiltonge code neiltonge vendor assets javascripts -  Users neiltonge code neiltonge vendor assets stylesheets -  Users neiltonge  rvm gems ruby-1 9 2-p320 neiltonge gems jquery-rails-2 0 0 vendor assets javascripts -  Users neiltonge  rvm gems ruby-1 9 2-p320 neiltonge gems coffee-rails-3 2 1 lib assets javascripts -  Users neiltonge  rvm gems ruby-1 9 2-p320 neiltonge gems bourbon-1 3 0 app assets stylesheets -  ruby object Pathname   path   Users neiltonge code neiltonge app assets fonts    gt  nil

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Now here s a twist      You should place all fonts in app assets fonts  as they WILL get precompiled in staging and production by default   they will get precompiled when pushed to heroku       Font files placed in vendor assets will NOT be precompiled on staging or production by default     they will fail on heroku  Source         plapier  thoughtbot bourbon     I strongly believe that putting vendor fonts into vendor assets fonts   makes a lot more sense than putting them into app assets fonts  With   these 2 lines of extra configuration this has worked well for me  on   Rails 4     app config assets paths  lt  lt  Rails root join  vendor    assets    fonts     app config assets precompile  lt  lt        svg eot woff ttf           jhilden  thoughtbot bourbon  I ve also tested it on rails 4 0 0  Actually the last one line is enough to safely precompile fonts from vendor folder  Took a couple of hours to figure it out  Hope it helped someone

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If you have a file called scaffolds css scss  then there s a chance that s overriding all the custom things you re doing in the other files  I commented out that file and suddenly everything worked  If there isn t anything important in that file  you might as well just delete it

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Here is a repo the demonstrates serving a custom font with Rails 5 2 that works on Heroku  It goes further and optimizes serving the fonts to be as fast as possible according to https   www webpagetest org   https   github com nzoschke edgecors  To start I picked pieces from answers above  For Rails 5 2  you shouldn t need extra asset pipeline config   Asset Pipeline and SCSS   Place fonts in app assets fonts Place the  font-face declaration in an scss file and use the font-url helper   From app assets stylesheets welcome scss    font-face     font-family   Inconsolata     src  font-url  Inconsolata-Regular ttf   format  truetype      font-weight  normal    font-style  normal     body     font-family   Inconsolata     font-weight  bold      Serve from CDN with CORS  I m using CloudFront  added with the Heroku Edge addon   First configure a CDN prefix and default Cache-Control headers in production rb   Rails application configure do     e g  https   d1unsc88mkka3m cloudfront net   config action controller asset host   ENV  EDGE URL      config public file server headers          Cache-Control    gt   public  max-age 31536000      end   If you try to access the font from the herokuapp com URL to the CDN URL  you will get a CORS error in your browser      Access to font at  https   d1unsc88mkka3m cloudfront net assets Inconsolata-Regular ttf  from origin  https   edgecors herokuapp com  has been blocked by CORS policy    No  Access-Control-Allow-Origin  header is present on the requested resource  edgecors herokuapp com    GET https   d1unsc88mkka3m cloudfront net assets Inconsolata-Regular ttf net  ERR FAILED   So configure CORS to allow access to the font from Heroku to the CDN URL    module EdgeCors   class Application  lt  Rails  Application       Initialize configuration defaults for originally generated Rails version      config load defaults 5 2      config middleware insert after ActionDispatch  Static  Rack  Deflater      config middleware insert before 0  Rack  Cors do       allow do         origins  w            http   edgecors herokuapp com           https   edgecors herokuapp com                   resource      headers   any  methods    get   post   options        end     end   end end   Serve gzip Font Asset  The asset pipeline builds a  ttf gz file but doesn t serve it  This monkey patch changes the asset pipeline gzip whitelist to a blacklist   require  action dispatch middleware static   ActionDispatch  FileHandler class eval do   private      def gzip file path path        return false if   image png    image jpeg    image gif   include  content type path        gzip path      path  gz        if File exist  File join  root    Rack  Utils unescape path gzip path            gzip path       else         false       end     end end   The ultimate result is a custom font file in app assets fonts served from a long-lived CloudFront cache

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I m using Rails 4 2  and could not get the footable icons to show up   Little boxes were showing  instead of the     on collapsed rows and the little sorting arrows I expected   After studying the information here  I made one simple change to my code   remove the font directory in css   That is  change all the css entries like this    src url  fonts footable eot      to look like this   src url  footable eot      It worked   I think Rails 4 2 already assumes the font directory  so specifying it again in the css code makes the font files not get found   Hope this helps

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You need to use font-url in your  font-face block  not url   font-face   font-family   Inconsolata   src font-url  Inconsolata-Regular ttf   format  truetype    font-weight  normal  font-style  normal      as well as this line in application rb  as you mentioned  for fonts in app assets fonts  config assets paths  lt  lt  Rails root join  app    assets    fonts

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just place your fonts inside app assets fonts folder and set the autoload path when app start using writing the code in application rb   config assets paths  lt  lt  Rails root join  app    assets    fonts   and   then  use the following code in css    font-face     font-family   icomoon    src  asset-url  icomoon eot     src  asset-url  icomoon eot   format  embedded-opentype          asset-url  icomoon woff   format  woff          asset-url  icomoon ttf   format  truetype          asset-url  icomoon svg   format  svg     font-weight  normal   font-style  normal       Give it a try   Thanks

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If you don t want to keep track of moving your fonts around     Adding Webfonts to the Asset Pipeline config assets precompile  lt  lt  Proc new    path    if path        eot svg ttf woff  z      true   end

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Here my approach to using fonts in asset pipeline   1  Put all your font file under app assets fonts   actually you are not restricted to put it under fonts folder name  You can put any subfolder name you like  E g  app assets abc or app assets anotherfonts  But i highly recommend you put it under app assets fonts  for better folder structure   2  From your sass file  using the sass helper font-path to request your font assets like this     font-face       font-family   FontAwesome       src  url font-path  fontawesome-webfont eot       v 4 4 0        src  url font-path  fontawesome-webfont eot        iefix amp v 4 4 0   format  embedded-opentype             url font-path  fontawesome-webfont woff2       v 4 4 0   format  woff2             url font-path  fontawesome-webfont woff       v 4 4 0   format  woff             url font-path  fontawesome-webfont ttf       v 4 4 0   format  truetype             url font-path  fontawesome-webfont svg       v 4 4 0 fontawesomeregular   format  svg        font-weight  normal      font-style  normal      3  Run bundle exec rake assets precompile from your local machine and see your application css result  You should see something like this    font-face       font-family   FontAwesome       src  url   assets fontawesome-webfont-d4f5a99224154f2a808e42a441ddc9248ffe78b7a4083684ce159270b30b912a eot    v 4 4 0        src  url   assets fontawesome-webfont-d4f5a99224154f2a808e42a441ddc9248ffe78b7a4083684ce159270b30b912a eot     iefix amp v 4 4 0   format  embedded-opentype    url   assets fontawesome-webfont-3c4a1bb7ce3234407184f0d80cc4dec075e4ad616b44dcc5778e1cfb1bc24019 woff2    v 4 4 0   format  woff2    url   assets fontawesome-webfont-a7c7e4930090e038a280fd61d88f0dc03dad4aeaedbd8c9be3dd9aa4c3b6f8d1 woff    v 4 4 0   format  woff    url   assets fontawesome-webfont-1b7f3de49d68b01f415574ebb82e6110a1d09cda2071ad8451bdb5124131a292 ttf    v 4 4 0   format  truetype    url   assets fontawesome-webfont-7414288c272f6cc10304aa18e89bf24fb30f40afd644623f425c2c3d71fbe06a svg    v 4 4 0 fontawesomeregular   format  svg        font-weight  normal      font-style  normal      If you want to know more how asset pipeline work  you can visit the following simple guide  https   designcode commandrun com rails-asset-pipeline-simple-guide-830e2e666f6c  6lejlayk2

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In my case the original question was using asset-url without results instead of plain url css property  Using asset-url ended up working for me in Heroku  Plus setting the fonts in  assets fonts folder and calling asset-url  font eot   without adding any subfolder or any other configuration to it

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If your Rails version is between  gt  3 1 0 and  lt  4  place your fonts in any of the these folders    app assets fonts lib assets fonts vendor assets fonts     For Rails versions  gt  4  you must place your fonts in the  app assets fonts folder   Note  To place fonts outside of these designated folders  use the following configuration   config assets precompile  lt  lt        svg eot woff ttf  z   For Rails versions  gt  4 2  it is recommended to add this configuration to config initializers assets rb    However  you can also add it to either config application rb   or to config production rb Declare your font in your CSS file    font-face     font-family   Icomoon     src url  icomoon eot      src url  icomoon eot  iefix   format  embedded-opentype        url  icomoon svg icomoon   format  svg        url  icomoon woff   format  woff        url  icomoon ttf   format  truetype      font-weight  normal    font-style  normal      Make sure your font is named exactly the same as in the URL portion of the declaration  Capital letters and punctuation marks matter  In this case  the font should have the name icomoon  If you are using Sass or Less with Rails  gt  3 1 0  your CSS file has  scss or  less extension   then change the url      in the font declaration to font-url        Otherwise  your CSS file should have the extension  css erb  and the font declaration should be url   lt    asset path        gt      If you are using Rails  gt  3 2 1  you can use font path      instead of asset path       This helper does exactly the same thing but it s more clear  Finally  use your font in your CSS like you declared it in the font-family part  If it was declared capitalized  you can use it like this   font-family   Icomoon

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I had a similar issue when I upgraded my Rails 3 app to Rails 4 recently  My fonts were not working properly as in the Rails 4   we are only allowed to keep the fonts under app assets fonts directory  But my Rails 3 app had a different font organization  So I had to configure the app so that it still works with Rails 4  having my fonts in a different place other than app assets fonts  I have tried several solutions but after I found non-stupid-digest-assets gem  it just made it so easy   Add this gem by adding the following line to your Gemfile   gem  non-stupid-digest-assets    Then run   bundle install   And finally add the following line in your config initializers non digest assets rb file   NonStupidDigestAssets whitelist           svg eot woff ttf        That s it  This solved my problem nicely  Hope this helps someone who have encountered similar problem like me

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I was having this problem on Rails 4 2  with ruby 2 2 3  and had to edit the font-awesome  paths scss partial to remove references to  fa-font-path and removing a leading forward slash  The following was broken    font-face     font-family   FontAwesome     src  font-url     fa-font-path  fontawesome-webfont eot v    fa-version       src  font-url     fa-font-path  fontawesome-webfont eot  iefix amp v    fa-version    format  embedded-opentype        font-url     fa-font-path  fontawesome-webfont woff2 v    fa-version    format  woff2        font-url     fa-font-path  fontawesome-webfont woff v    fa-version    format  woff        font-url     fa-font-path  fontawesome-webfont ttf v    fa-version    format  truetype        font-url     fa-font-path  fontawesome-webfont svg v    fa-version  fontawesomeregular   format  svg      font-weight  normal    font-style  normal      And the following works    font-face     font-family   FontAwesome     src  font-url  fontawesome-webfont eot v    fa-version       src  font-url  fontawesome-webfont eot  iefix amp v    fa-version    format  embedded-opentype        font-url  fontawesome-webfont woff2 v    fa-version    format  woff2        font-url  fontawesome-webfont woff v    fa-version    format  woff        font-url  fontawesome-webfont ttf v    fa-version    format  truetype        font-url  fontawesome-webfont svg v    fa-version  fontawesomeregular   format  svg      font-weight  normal    font-style  normal      An alternative would be to simply remove the forward slash following the interpolated  fa-font-path and then define  fa-font-path as an empty string or subdirectory with trailing forward slash  as needed    Remember to recompile assets and restart your server as needed  For example  on a passenger setup   prompt gt  rake assets clean  rake assets clobber prompt gt  RAILS ENV production RAILS GROUPS assets rake assets precompile prompt gt  service passenger restart   Then reload your browser

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