barodeur / font-awesome-sass

Font-Awesome SASS gem for use in Ruby/Rails projects

Font::Awesome::Sass

Font-Awesome SASS gem for use in Rails or Compass projects

* NOTE: Working on supporting other environments *

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'font-awesome-sass'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install font-awesome-sass

If you use Rails add this to e.g. application.css.scss:

*= require font-awesome

Upgrading from 3.*

Prepend the fa class to existing icons:

3.* Syntax
<i class="icon-github"></i>

4.* Syntax
<i class="fa fa-github"></i>

Rails Helper usage

In your view:

icon('flag')
# => <i class="fa fa-flag"></i>

icon('flag', '', class: 'strong')
# => <i class="fa fa-flag strong"></i>

icon('flag', 'Font Awesome', id: 'my-icon', class: 'strong')
# => <i id="my-icon" class="fa fa-flag strong"></i> Font Awesome

Note: the icon helper can take a hash of options that will be passed to the content_tag helper