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Asked: 2026-05-28T20:39:32+00:00

In my global.css file which is loaded by application.html.erb , I have the following

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In my global.css file which is loaded by application.html.erb, I have the following lines:

@font-face {
  font-family: myfont;
  src: url(/lib/fonts/MyFont-AH.ttf) format("truetype"); /* For IE */
  src: local("MyFont-AH"), url(/lib/fonts/MyFont-AH.ttf) format("truetype"); /* Non-IE */ 

}

And then elsewhere I have

h1 {
  font-family: myfont, helvetica, arial;
}

When I booted up the server h1 was using the Helvetica font, and I got the error in my log ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/lib/fonts/MyFont-AH.ttf"):. I figured that this meant I would need to edit my routes file, so I went and added the line get "/lib/fonts/MyFont-AH.ttf", but then when I reloaded the page I got the error missing :controller because there is no controller tied to this action. When I created a controller and matched the get request to it, it then wanted a template. It seems that it wants me to have a controller / action set up like most other get requests, so I’m not quite sure what to do here. Any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I upgraded to Rails 3.2 and am using the Asset Pipeline (from Rails 3.1+), and I placed the fonts I wanted to display in vendor/assets/fonts. Then I added the following line to my application.rb file: config.assets.paths << "#{Rails.root}/vendor/assets/fonts". Finally in my CSS file I used the format:

    @font-face {
  font-family: myfont;
  src: url("/assets/myfont.ttf") format("truetype"); /* For IE */
  src: local("myfont"), url("/assets/myfont.ttf") format("truetype"); /* For non-IE */
}

    I think a part of the original problem might have been that my files were stored with the extension .TTF rather than .ttf but I’m not sure. All I know is it’s working now.

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