couldn't find file 'css/font-awesome' with type 'text/css'

Question

I have downloaded font-awesome to: /app/assets/fonts/font-awesome-4.7.0

When I open I page I receive:

couldn't find file 'css/font-awesome' with type 'text/css'
Checked in these paths: 
  /home/dercni/Documents/oink201705/app/assets/config
  /home/dercni/Documents/oink201705/app/assets/fonts
  /home/dercni/Documents/oink201705/app/assets/images
  /home/dercni/Documents/oink201705/app/assets/javascripts
  /home/dercni/Documents/oink201705/app/assets/stylesheets
  /home/dercni/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/cocoon-1.2.10/app/assets/javascripts
  /home/dercni/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/jquery-rails-4.3.1/vendor/assets/javascripts
  /home/dercni/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/jquery-turbolinks-2.1.0/vendor/assets/javascripts
  /home/dercni/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/coffee-rails-4.2.2/lib/assets/javascripts
  /home/dercni/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/actioncable-5.1.1/lib/assets/compiled
  /home/dercni/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/actionview-5.1.1/lib/assets/compiled
  /home/dercni/Documents/oink201705/node_modules
  /home/dercni/Documents/oink201705/app/assets/fonts
  /home/dercni/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/bootstrap-sass-3.3.7/assets/stylesheets
  /home/dercni/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/bootstrap-sass-3.3.7/assets/javascripts
  /home/dercni/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/bootstrap-sass-3.3.7/assets/fonts
  /home/dercni/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/bootstrap-sass-3.3.7/assets/images

And below that:

Extracted source (around line #15):
 *= require_tree .
 *= require_self
 *= require css/font-awesome
 *= require css/govicons
 */
#activity_outer.in,

When I move these individual font folders up one level they work, so they are located at: /app/assets/font-awesome-4.7.0

I would be more structured to store all fonts in a fonts folder rather than straight under assets however I cannot see where to configure this.

katniss.everbean katniss.everbean · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-10T22:23:46

According to your error message, Rails is looking in /home/dercni/Documents/oink201705/app/assets/fonts

but it's not finding css/font-awesome in it.

If css/font-awesome is still in the enclosing font-awesome-4.7.0 directory, try writing your require statement to include that directory name in the path:

*= require font-awesome-4.7.0/css/font-awesome

couldn't find file 'css/font-awesome' with type 'text/css'

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