Educate. Liberate.

Once upon a time Mark James released a whole set of free icons that rocked the kasbah. These icons were used far and wide, and earned their creator gracious amounts of karma. They were even used on several occasions by a lowly web-dev named Scott Fleckenstein, who conceived an easier way of selectively incorporating these icons into a rails application.

The production of the idea was a long and arduous* journey, but after many trials and tribulations, a tool emerged that accomplished the dream: Fammer was born.

*

15 minutes

**

I stubbed my toe on the desk

Install

script/plugin install http://code.nullstyle.com/git/fammer

Invoke

script/famfamfam pencil

Once installed this plugin lets you easily install icons from silk into the public/images/icons folder one-by-one. Just give the name of the icon as the first argument and you’re done.

I also recommend the following code be pasted into your application helper to ease icon use:

def icon(icon, options={})
  image_tag "icons/#{icon}.png", options
end