How to use fonts in Rails 4

Question

I have a Rails 4 application and I am trying to use a custom font.

I have followed many tutorials on this and somehow it\'s just not working for my application.

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Answer 1

In Rails 4, there is a helper to set the path for the fonts.

If you have the font in /assets/fonts or vendor/assets/fonts, Rails 4 will find them! To take advantage of this, in the Bootstrap CSS file change the @font_face call to

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Glyphicons Halflings';
  src: font-url('glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot');
  src: font-url('glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), 
       font-url('glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff') format('woff'), 
       font-url('glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf') format('truetype'), 
       font-url('glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg#glyphicons_halflingsregular') format('svg');
}

Note that there is no folder specification in front the font files. This is completed by the rails helper.