Getting Katex fonts to load with Rails Asset Pipeline

Question

I\'m integrating the Katex math formula rendering library into a Rails 3.2 app but the font assets keep returning a 404 error message:

Answer 1

It turns out that all of the assets are compiled into the public/assets directory instead of being separated like public/assets/fonts, which is what Katex is expecting.

However, subdirectories of these "main" directories are retained so I moved the Katex fonts to the following directory instead:

vendor/assets/fonts/fonts/

Now the public/assets directory contains a fonts directory and the path /assets/fonts/KaTeX_Math-Italic.woff gets served just fine.

I don't like having a fonts/fonts directory so let me know if there's a more elegant way to solve this that doesn't involve manipulating the third party JS or CSS assets.