sfcgeorge / emoticon_fontify

Convert emoticon symbols to font icons in Rails apps.

Emoticon Fontify

Use helper method to convert text emoticons to unicode characters for use with the font included in asset pipeline.

See the LICENSE for copyright information.

Installation

Add emoticon_fontify to you Gemfile and bundle.

gem 'emoticon_fontify'

Then include the stylesheet in your application.css manifest.

*= 'emoticon_fontify/emoticons'

Finally use the helper to fontify emoticons in a string. This would allow fontifying content such as: Why hello there good sir :O could I interest you in a cup of coffee? :)~D

require 'emoticon_fontify'

EmoticonFontify.emoticon_fontify(h(content))

List Of Emoticons

:) :-) ;) ;-) :( :-( :| :-| }:) }:-) 3:) 3:-) :O :-O :0 :-0 :P :-P :)~D :-)~D B) B-) :/ :-/ :\ :-
:D :-D :@ :-@ X( X-( O:) O:-) 0:) 0:-) ;( ;-( 8) 8-)

An example of how the emoticon's look when converted to the font glyphs can be seen on the [http://sfcgeorge.github.com/emoticon_fontify/demo.html](demo page).