Adding Font Awesome to your project manually instead of via a gem
Font Awesome is truly a work of art. Those guys should be charging for this product, but I am grateful that they are not. Today was the day that I finally got fed up using the font-awesome-rails gem. On Rails 3 it was excellent and it was just a bundle install away, but with Rails 4 it just stopped working. Others have had issues with it and their response was that it was a sass-rails problem, and not theirs. Every time I used their gem with a Rails 4 project I would manually patch their gem to make it a proper SCSS file font-awesome.css.scss instead of using the old style font-awesome.css.erb that they use. However, whenever they release a new version of their gem mine stopped working until I patched it again. ...