# bokmann/font-awesome-rails

the font-awesome font bundled as an asset for the rails asset pipeline

Repository: https://github.com/bokmann/font-awesome-rails
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/font-awesome-rails
Homepage: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-01-03T00:20:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5292, "days_push": 608, "days_rel": 661, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1852, forks 237 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:44.463728+00:00)

## What it is
A Rails engine that bundles the Font Awesome icon font and stylesheets for use with the Rails asset pipeline. It also provides view helpers like fa_icon and fa_stacked_icon for generating icon markup.

## Use cases
- add font awesome icons to a rails app
- use scalable vector icons in rails views
- bundle icon fonts with the rails asset pipeline
- generate icon html with rails helpers
- include font awesome via sass in rails

## When to choose
- you are on a Rails app using the asset pipeline and need Font Awesome 4 icons
- you want simple view helpers for rendering icons

## When to avoid
- you need Font Awesome 5 or 6 (use font-awesome-sass instead)
- you are not using Ruby on Rails

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, css-framework, plugin-system
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: ruby
- tags: font-awesome, rails, asset-pipeline, icons, rubygems, web-server

## Member repositories
- bokmann/font-awesome-rails (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:44.463728+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:16:52.373670+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bokmann/font-awesome-rails (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:44.463728+00:00, sha 1e4ce767ce42)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.