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In an effort to avoid community confusion, I'd like to propose deprecating this gem in favor of bokmann/font-awesome-rails. Font-awesome-rails has actually received at least one bug report that should have been reported here instead.

Reasons: The font-awesome-rails gem...

• tracks Font-Awesome core very closely.
• has a test suite
• including test matrices for Rails 3.2, Rails 4.x, and Rails 5.
• works when fonts are stored on a CDN (like CloudFront)
• doesn't require sass or less, but
• still works with sass imports
• includes view helpers for rendering different kinds of icon formats

Consolidating everyone's efforts into one canonical rails engine is a win.

font-awesome-rails is basically a drop-in replacement for fontawesome-rails, but with some extras.

If you're open to this, I suggest:

1. Clearing out the repository, but
2. Leave just a README with a pointer and explanation that font-awesome-rails should be used instead.

(I'm happy to submit a pull-request with this deprecation to save you time.)

Thoughts?