Bootstrap 3+Rails 4 - Certain Glyphicons not working

Solution 1:

I had the same problem and found a solution. Full credit goes to Eric Minkel, who wrote a detailed blog post on the topic. I would highly suggest reading it for further reasoning.

Edit app/assets/stylesheets/application.css by adding:
```
*= require bootstrap
```
Edit app/assets/javascripts/application.js by adding:
```
//= require bootstrap
```
In config/application.rb, add the following after class Application < Rails::Application. It should look like this:
```
class Application < Rails::Application
    config.assets.paths << "#{Rails}/vendor/assets/fonts"
```
In the terminal, compile your assets by running:
```
rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=development
```

Edit the bootstrap.css file by changing @font-face resource locations from ../fonts/ to /assets/. It should look like this:

@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');
}

You're done. Just restart with rails s and the glyphicons should appear.

Solution 2:

Just use:

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

in your SCSS or SASS file. "bootstrap-sprockets" is required for image and font fix.

Chances are you already have:

@import "bootstrap";

declared in application.scss.

Solution 3:

I was having this same problem. Solved by adding:

@import "bootstrap-sprockets";

above the existing line:

@import 'bootstrap';

in my /app/stylesheets/bootstrap_and_customisation.css.scss file

Solution 4:

I had the same problem. Something is wrong with the font path in bootstrap. Fortunately it is a fairly easy fix:

$icon-font-path: 'bootstrap/';

This fixed it for me. Should go before importing bootstrap-sass. You might need to change the value here.

Solution 5:

Update to this. I was having the same issue and went through the steps provided by the #1 answer from Oddurs. That didn't work for me for some reason. And then I realized it had to do with the file structure in my public folder (not sure why mine was different).

Basically I got it to work by adding "/bootstrap" after "/assets" since all my glyphicons were in a "/bootstrap" folder I believe by default

So instead of this:

@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 did this:

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

in the application.css. Hopefully that helps somebody