Font Awesome has an official Ruby on Rails (opens new window) gem for free and pro icons.
How to Install
There are different ways to install the free version vs. the pro version.
Add the Font Awesome Ruby gem to your Gemfile
:
gem "font-awesome-sass", "~> VERSION"
source "https://token:[email protected]/basic/fontawesome-pro/ruby/" do
gem "font-awesome-pro-sass", "VERSION"
end
Time to Bundle
In the terminal and in your project folder:
bundle install
Import Font Awesome
Add the following to the app/assets/stylesheets/application.css.scss
file:
@import "font-awesome";
@import "font-awesome-pro";
Style Time
Next, you need to choose which style of icons you want to use in your project. You may import any number of the styles. Font Awesome has the following styles:
# Nothing additional needed to install for free icons.
# Brands, free solid, and free regular icons are included with the import above.
@import "font-awesome-pro/brands";
@import "font-awesome-pro/solid";
@import "font-awesome-pro/regular";
@import "font-awesome-pro/light";
@import "font-awesome-pro/thin";
@import "font-awesome-pro/duotone";
@import "font-awesome-pro/sharp-solid";
Add Those Icons
It's time!
<i class="fa-brands fa-font-awesome"></i>
<i class="fa-solid fa-user-secret"></i>
<i class="fa-regular fa-bell"></i>
<i class="fa-solid fa-alien"></i>
<i class="fa-regular fa-alien"></i>
<i class="fa-light fa-alien"></i>
<i class="fa-thin fa-alien"></i>
<i class="fa-duotone fa-alien"></i>
<i class="fa-sharp fa-solid fa-alien"></i>
Feeling your oats, add icons using the Rails helper function:
<%= icon('fa-brands', 'font-awesome')%>
<%= icon('fa-solid', 'user-secret')%>
<%= icon('fa-regular', 'bell')%>
<%= icon('fa-solid', 'alien')%>
<%= icon('fa-regular', 'alien')%>
<%= icon('fa-light', 'alien')%>
<%= icon('fa-thin', 'alien')%>
<%= icon('fa-duotone', 'alien')%>
<%= icon('fa-solid fa-sharp', 'alien')%>
Alright Stop, Animate, and Listen
Want to animate or change the size of your icons? Here's how:
<i class="fa-solid fa-user-secret fa-7x fa-flip"></i>
<i class="fa-thin fa-user-secret fa-7x fa-beat"></i>
Or animate with the Rails helper function:
<%= icon('fa-solid', 'user-secret', class:"fa-7x, fa-shake")%>
<%= icon('fa-brands', 'font-awesome', 'Font Awesome', id: 'my-icon', class: 'fa-shake')%>
<%= icon('fab', 'font-awesome', 'Font Awesome', id: 'my-icon', class: 'fa-beat')%>
<%= icon('fa-thin', 'alien', class:"fa-7x fa-bounce")%>
<%= icon('fa-light', 'font-awesome', 'Font Awesome', id: 'my-icon', class: 'fa-shake')%>
<%= icon('fad', 'font-awesome', 'Font Awesome', id: 'my-icon', class: 'fa-beat')%>
Note: the icon helper can take a hash of options that will be passed to the content_tag helper
Other Ruby Projects
The path.scss
file contains a function for using the font-path function if found. If the function is not found it will use the $fa-font-path
variable for the path to the webfont files. You can override this variable to where your framework will store the webfonts files.