Ruby on Rails Bootstrap Glyphicons not working

I have added bootstrap to my site. Here is the structure I am using. (I cannot whatsoever remove the bootstrap.css file since it I modified it to my liking).

>app
>>assets
>>>fonts
>>>>4 glypicons icon files.
>>>images
>>>>N/A
>>>javascripts
>>>>Bootstrap.js (Jquery is installed in a gem)
>>>stylesheets
>>>>Bootstrap.css

Everything is imported correctly, but the issue is that the glyphicons arent working and I need them!

Solution 1:

November 2015 EDIT: I would recommend this gem: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass It is actively maintained by the Bootstrap community and works really well with Ruby on Rails.

I was having a very similar issue as you but I figure it out! Find this part in your bootstrap.css file:

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

and replace ../fonts/ with /assets. This is what your final code will look like.

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

I hope this helped!

Solution 2:

If you are using bootstrap-sass and you have this issue try to import bootstrap like this in one of your scss files. If you use sass, just convert the syntax:

@import "bootstrap-sprockets";
@import "bootstrap";

Solution 3:

For me as a twitter-bootstrap-rails user:

Thanks to take's post @ GitHub

Adding this:

/* Override Bootstrap 3 font locations */
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Glyphicons Halflings';
  src: url('../assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot');
  src: url('../assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
  url('../assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff') format('woff'),
  url('../assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf') format('truetype'),
  url('../assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg#glyphicons_halflingsregular') format('svg');
}

to my application.css fixed the issue.

Hope to be helpful.

Solution 4:

I was also struggling to make boostrap3 glyphicon work in rails 4. I solved it by adding

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

to application.css.scss file and

config.assets.paths << "#{Rails}/vendor/assets/fonts"

to application.rb file.