icons break on deployment using rails, spree with fancy extension

Question

I have spree 2-1-stable running with rails 4.0.2. I added the spree-fancy extension.
Everything looks good on the development server.

When I deploy to production the icons break (e.g. cart, search, account icons). The icon html is:

<i class="icon-basket"></i>

the css is:

.icon-basket:before { content: '\e73d'; }
[class^="icon-"]:before, [class*=" icon-"]:before {
    font-family: 'icons';
}

I can replicate the issue with my development environment by removing the line: font-family: 'icons'. This issue happened on Heroku and on my own server running nginx. Examining the source html and css on both pages, everything looks the same. Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I got the same issue with rails 4.0.2 and spree 2-1-stable and it took me the last 4 hours to find a workaround. You already mentioned it yourself, but maybe it saves others some time (even if it's not a real solution):

Just find the missing .woff's or whatever and copy them to the right directory. In my case those were needed:

1. icon.wuff from github.com/spree/spree_fancy

2. fontawesome-webfont.woff from here

3. ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png from jquery (just google it)

Just insert them into the directory the server/browser is complaining about.

Answer 2

Temporarily change the database configuration file for production envroiment be set to use Sqlite3 gem in config\database.yml

default: &default
  adapter: sqlite3
  pool: 5
  timeout: 5000
development:
  <<: *default
  database: db/development.sqlite3
test:
  <<: *default
  database: db/test.sqlite3
production:
  <<: *default
  database: db/production.sqlite3

Add gem 'sqlite' to your Gemfile if not present already and do a

$ bundle install && RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile

When files are generated, undo the changes in Gemfile and config\database.yml do a $ bundle install and deploy

Answer 3

This works for me. You need to precompile with production environment

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile