Rails 5.1.2 bootstrap icons not being served in production

This is an Awesome place. I hope to be competent enough soon to contribute solutions.

Please, somebody help!!?!

I have watched hours of youtube and read every post about asset pipeline pre-compilation on the web.

For whatever reason I decided to use Rails 5.1.2 and I don't know if that is the problem.

glyphicons don't render on Heroku or using

rails s -e production 

on my local ubuntu.

I type

rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production

and get

I, [2018-01-01T16:05:07.261287 #4745]  INFO -- : Writing /home/dracos/rails/video-store/public/assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular-e395044093757d82afcb138957d06a1ea9361bdcf0b442d06a18a8051af57456.ttf
I, [2018-01-01T16:05:07.261968 #4745]  INFO -- : Writing /home/dracos/rails/video-store/public/assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular-e395044093757d82afcb138957d06a1ea9361bdcf0b442d06a18a8051af57456.ttf.gz
I, [2018-01-01T16:05:07.263049 #4745]  INFO -- : Writing /home/dracos/rails/video-store/public/assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular-fe185d11a49676890d47bb783312a0cda5a44c4039214094e7957b4c040ef11c.woff
I, [2018-01-01T16:05:07.264510 #4745]  INFO -- : Writing /home/dracos/rails/video-store/public/assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular-fe185d11a49676890d47bb783312a0cda5a44c4039214094e7957b4c040ef11c.woff2
I, [2018-01-01T16:05:07.289833 #4745]  INFO -- : Writing /home/dracos/rails/video-store/public/assets/application-c29c47294834d3d47956f910a3182df4a7db7d5864e82c6f758027f30669bafb.js
I, [2018-01-01T16:05:07.290028 #4745]  INFO -- : Writing /home/dracos/rails/video-store/public/assets/application-c29c47294834d3d47956f910a3182df4a7db7d5864e82c6f758027f30669bafb.js.gz
I, [2018-01-01T16:05:14.175848 #4745]  INFO -- : Writing /home/dracos/rails/video-store/public/assets/application-b896db4d9b9e69049347e71a1825dcdc1a4eed9147196fdd761afe6f12b556d4.css
I, [2018-01-01T16:05:14.176068 #4745]  INFO -- : Writing /home/dracos/rails/video-store/public/assets/application-b896db4d9b9e69049347e71a1825dcdc1a4eed9147196fdd761afe6f12b556d4.css.gz

but in log/production.log I get

FATAL -- : [849248f2-cd3c-4912-a10d-4f63bd5857ae] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf"):

FATAL -- : [dfae9054-ad8a-4553-85a3-c55d55b1946c] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff"):

etc...

Me no get?!? I won't pretend to understand all the voodoo goings on under the bonnet of the asset pipeline and want now to not be newbie but this!?!? Why? Can anyone let me know?

My /app/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap.css has been amended to show

@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.woff2') format('woff2'),   
    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');
}

and, interestingly enough the /assets/ part gets added even if I leave it out of the url path in the above file altogether. I have tried everything. Can anyone help? Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

If you wish to keep your assets in /assets folder only and not in /public folder.

Firstly, You can place all glyohicons' fonts file in /assets/fonts folder. (If /fonts not created, then create one).

Secondly, convert your .css file into .scss file by renaming it so that you can use assets_path method in stylesheet

Then, let your application know that you have fonts as an asset too by adding following line in your application.rb file

config.assets.paths << "#{Rails.root.to_s}/app/assets/fonts"

Then, change your urls in bootstrap.scss file in a following way.

src: url(asset_path('glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot'));

Restart the server and check, fonts should get loaded as assets.

Thanks.