Rails: Installing font-awesome in Rails 6.0.0-rc1 with webpacker and yarn

As of November 2019 I have found this the easiest way to get it all working:

Install via Yarn:

yarn add @fortawesome/fontawesome-free

Import in your application.js file:

import "@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/all.css";

Pretty straightforward and worked for me!

Credit goes to my colleague Ollie Cambridge 🤓 for this solution!

Asim's answer put me on the right track. However, it seems like some of the import paths have changed for the newer version (5.8.2) of FontAwesome. Here is what I needed to put inside of my application.scss file to make FontAwesome 5.8.2 available for use in my Rails 6.0.0-rc1 application:

$fa-font-path: '~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/webfonts';@import "~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/fontawesome";@import "~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/solid";

You need to remove the ~ sign at the start of your imports and it should work fine.

It should be something like this:

$fa-font-path: '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free-webfonts/webfonts';@import '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free-webfonts/scss/fontawesome';@import '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free-webfonts/scss/fa-solid';

Hope it helps :)