Rails: Font awesome icons not showing using font-awesome-rails gem - ruby-on-rails

I can't seem to find an answer that works for me.
The icon shows up as a box: 
I'm using:
font-awesome-rails (4.6.2.0)
rails (4.2.3)
I imported font-awesome-rails in my application.scss file using:
#import "font-awesome";
and here is what I wrote for the view:
<i class="quote-left fa fa-quote-left"></i>
I've tried including it before and after bootstrap.
I also tried manually adding the font folder to the pipeline in application.rb
config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("app", "assets", "fonts")
Clearing the tmp folder didn't seem to do anything either.
I spent way too much time on this, please help :(

I had this issue when working with Rails 6 and Bootstrap 4 in Ubuntu 20.04.
I had set up Fontawesome this way:
First I added Font Awesome to my package.json file:
yarn add #fortawesome/fontawesome-free
Next, I imported it into my app/javascript/packs/application.js file:
require("#fortawesome/fontawesome-free")
Next, I imported it into my app/assets/stylesheets/application.scss file:
$fa-font-path: '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/webfonts';
#import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/fontawesome';
#import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/brands';
#import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/solid';
#import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/regular';
#import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/v4-shims';
I also added the Font Awesome 5 Rails gem to my Gemfile:
gem 'font_awesome5_rails'
and installed it in my project:
bundle install
And finally I modified where my fontawesome icons were called from this format:
<i class="fas fa-camera-retro"></i>
to this format
fa_icon('camera-retro')
But the issue was that the icons were displaying fine in development but not in production.
Here's how I fixed it:
The issue was that I needed to import the FontAwesome 5 fonts into the app/assets/stylesheets/application.scss file. So I imported this to it:
#import 'font_awesome5_webfont';
So my fontawesome import to the app/assets/stylesheets/application.scss file looked like this finally:
#import 'font_awesome5_webfont';
$fa-font-path: '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/webfonts';
#import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/fontawesome';
#import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/brands';
#import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/solid';
#import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/regular';
#import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/v4-shims';
This time the icons displayed properly in development as well as production.
Note: Please ensure to re-compile your assets after making these changes and restart your server.
That's all.
I hope this helps

I moved my import of font-awesome below my font import and it solved it.
from this:
#import "font-awesome";
#import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Playfair+Display:700,900");
to this:
#import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Playfair+Display:700,900");
#import "font-awesome";

Try restarting your webserver, after adding #import 'font-awesome.css' to your application.scss.
Also read these, if you haven't yet,
https://github.com/bokmann/font-awesome-rails/issues/130#issuecomment-95308175
https://github.com/bokmann/font-awesome-rails/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed

I solved this issue by explicitly declaring a font-family: FontAwesome; rule in my stylesheet because a global * style was overwriting the font-family attribute for the .fa class.

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