fontawesome-rails-cdn

Easily add Font Awesome to your Rails 3 or 4 project leveraging a CDN.

  • Supports Rails 3.x and 4.x
  • Supports Font Awesome 4.0.3 and 3.2.1

Benefits

  • Offloads loading of the Font Awesome assets from your host, allowing your browser to execute more HTTP requests in parallel so your pages render faster.
  • Leverages the cached copy on a client so your page will load faster if a user already has visited a site using Font Awesome.

Features

  • Support for the latest version of Font Awesome.
  • Falls back to local static assets when running in development mode. (This can be overridden.)

Installation

Gemfile

Update your Gemfile to include this gem:

...
gem 'fontawesome-rails-cdn'

Run bundle install to update your local gems. Restart your Rails server if necessary.

Layout

The gem will add the fontawesome_stylesheet_link_tag helper. Add this to your layout files inside the head section to automatically include.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    ...
    <%= fontawesome_stylesheet_link_tag %>
    ...
  </head>
 ...

License

(c) 2014 Christopher Brito

MIT License - reference LICENSE file