How to use custom fonts and host them from assets directory

First, introduce a new folder called fonts into assets. You also need to create the folder.

# config/application.rb
config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("app", "assets", "fonts")

Then, setup a folder structure with the font assets your want to use. Put the file that contains all @font-face declarations into app/assets/stylesheets.

I’m using Inter and it has a CSS file with all font-faces. I’ve moved the CSS file into app/asserts/stylesheets/vendor, I like my stylesheets neat and structured.

Here is the folder structure:

# app/assets/

.
├── builds/
├── config/
├── fonts/
│   └── Inter-3.19
│       ├── Inter-Black.woff
│       ├── Inter-Black.woff2
│       ├── ...
│       ├── ...
│       └── Inter.var.woff2
├── images/
└── stylesheets/
    ├── application.sass.scss
    └── vendor
        └── inter-3.19.scss

Make sure the @font-face declarations point into correct folder.

For my needs, I need to add Inter-3.19 into each font-face url since it’s located in subfolder in fonts-folder.

Find and replace all occurences of src: url("Inter-roman.var.woff2?v=3.19") format("woff2"); with src: url("Inter-3.19/Inter-roman.var.woff2?v=3.19") format("woff2");

Finally, import the fonts in your CSS. Add the following into your root CSS file.

@use 'vendor/Inter-3.19';

Setup rotating logs in production

Prevent your log files growing too big and filling up your server storage.

# config/environments/production.rb
config.logger = Logger.new(config.paths["log"].first, "weekly")

Install language server for Ruby and Ruby on Rails

bundle add ruby-lsp-rails

Your editor should pick it up automatically, at least Sublime Text does it.

Email configuration for development environment

I’m using Mailcatcher to do my email styling in development mode.

First, install mailcatcher gem.

gem install mailcatcher

Setup the mail configuration in development.

# config/environments/development.rb

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { address: "127.0.0.1", port: 1025 }
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false

Add mailcatcher in your development Procfile. There are similar gems out there, but mailcatcher fits me needs perfectly. 👌

# Procfile.dev
mail: mailcatcher --foreground

The --foreground switch keeps it running in same process and does not daemonize it into background. This way Foreman is able to stop mailcatcher process along with other processed defined in Procfile.dev.

Closing thoughts

This blog post is written entirely for me. This saves me from searching the answers from internet everytime I start a new project.

Some of thos snippets are very simple, but I cannot seem to memorize them into my brain. I still have to search bunch of simple stuff when programming. For example, the class that I need to inherit from when writing a unit test, I just don’t remember it.

By the way, it’s ActiveSupport::TestCase.