Flarnie Marchan flarnie

## bootstrap_glyphs_in_rails.md

      
              1 file
            
          
              7 forks
            
          
              14 comments
            
          
              25 stars
            
          
                iamatypeofwalrus
                / bootstrap_glyphs_in_rails.md
            
            
              Last active
              February 9, 2022 15:27
            
              
                Get Glyphicons up and running in Rails 3.2 without using a gem
              
          
    Getting Glyphicons from Bootstrap 3.0 in Rails: the easy way

What

Bootstrap 3.0 gives you access to the awesome icon set icon set by these dudes but it's not obvious for a Rails newbie like myself to get it all working together nicely
How


Download the bootstrap-glyphicons.css from here. Save that file to RAILS_ROOT/vendor/assets/stylesheet/bootstrap-glyphicons.css
Save all the font files in /dist/fonts from the Bootstrap 3.0 download to a new folder in your Rails app RAILS_ROOT/vendor/assets/fonts
Add this folder to the asset pipeline by appending config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("vendor","assets", "fonts") to application.rb after the line that has class Application < Rails::Application.
In bootstrap-glyphicons.css modify the the `url