Get fonts from Font-Awesome-Sass gem copied into grunt compass output directory

Question

I have successfully installed the "font-awesome-sass" ruby-gem and included it via "require"-property inside the compass gunt-config and via "import"-rule in my scss. So the font-awesome scss gets compiled into my output-css file, this works so far.

My problem now: how do I get the font files (.woff, .otf, ..) from the ruby-gem into my grunt output directory. The files are already referenced inside the output-css as located in "../css/fonts/" directory but they don't get copied automatically.

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

I believe you could accomplish with something like grunt-contrib-copy

$ npm install grunt-contrib-copy

In your Gruntfile.js add a task like:

copy: {
  fonts: {
    src: 'path/to/font-awesome/files/*',
    dest: 'app/assets/fonts/font-awesome',
  },
},

As shoesel mentioned; if you are using grunt I would probably also use NPM packages or bower to pull in font-awesome. If you do, the path to your assets will be determined by the package used to install them. Adjust your paths to match your app setup obviously but the general idea should work.