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    <h2 class="page-header">EASIEST: <a href="http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/#fontawesome_tab">BootstrapCDN</a> by <a href="http://maxcdn.com">MaxCDN</a></h2>
    <p>Thanks to the generous folks at <a href="http://maxcdn.com">MaxCDN</a>, you can use Bootstrap CDN to add Font Awesome into your website with a single line of code. You don't even have to download or install anything!</p>
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        Paste the following code into the <code>&lt;head&gt;</code> section of your site's HTML.
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="html"><span class="nt">&lt;link</span> <span class="na">href=</span><span class="s">&quot;//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css&quot;</span> <span class="na">rel=</span><span class="s">&quot;stylesheet&quot;</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
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    <h2 class="page-header">EASY: Default CSS</h2>
    <p>Use this method to get the default Font Awesome CSS with the default Bootstrap CSS.</p>
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      <li>Copy the entire <code>font-awesome</code> directory into your project.</li>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="html"><span class="nt">&lt;link</span> <span class="na">rel=</span><span class="s">&quot;stylesheet&quot;</span> <span class="na">href=</span><span class="s">&quot;path/to/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css&quot;</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
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    <h2 class="page-header">EASY: <a href="https://github.com/FortAwesome/font-awesome-less">LESS Ruby Gem</a></h2>
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      Use the <a href="https://github.com/FortAwesome/font-awesome-less">Official Font Awesome LESS Ruby Gem</a> to easily get Font
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        Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="bash">gem <span class="s1">&#39;font-awesome-less&#39;</span>
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        And then execute:
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="bash"><span class="nv">$ </span>bundle
</code></pre></div>
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      <li>Or install it yourself as:
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="bash"><span class="nv">$ </span>gem install font-awesome-less
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    <h2 class="page-header">EASY: <a href="https://github.com/FortAwesome/font-awesome-sass">SASS Ruby Gem</a></h2>
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      Use the <a href="https://github.com/FortAwesome/font-awesome-sass">Official Font Awesome SASS Ruby Gem</a> to easily get Font
      Awesome SASS into a Rails project. Generously maintained by <a href="https://twitter.com/supercodepoet/">@supercodepoet</a>.
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        Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="bash">gem <span class="s1">&#39;font-awesome-sass&#39;</span>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="bash"><span class="nv">$ </span>bundle
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    <h2 class="page-header">PRO: Custom LESS or SASS</h2>
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      <li>Copy the <code>font-awesome/</code> directory into your project.</li>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="scss"><span class="k">@fa-font-path</span><span class="nd">:</span>   <span class="s2">&quot;../font&quot;</span><span class="o">;</span>
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      <li>Check out the <a href="../examples/">examples</a> to start using Font Awesome!</li>
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