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Styles not rendering

Miguel asked in CSS

Hey guys,

So I'm following a tutorial, and around the 1 hr mark, he starts adding the styles. When I tried to reproduce it, it would not render.

When I inspect an element, for example (intro), it shows me these lines from the application.css.scss : (but it doesn't render it)

body {
    font-family: "Proxima Nova";
    font-weight: 100;
}

Also, there are more attributes added as @import to the application.css.scss that should be inherited to the element (and the browser actually successfully reads it, when I click to see the file), but it doesn't render any of that stuff either.

Where I think the problem is:
These 2 lines on my application.html? Somehow? But I don't know why or how. I went to the page and copied the current version, (The exact link differs a bit from the one of the tutorial, but I also tried the old one and no luck)

  <link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/normalize/7.0.0/normalize.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> 
  <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
What rookie mistake am I making??
[Here's my repo](https://github.com/mickeytgl/muse/tree/master/app/assets/stylesheets)

Cheers, Miguel
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Is that the only css that doesn't work, the one referring to the font Proxima Nova? I believe that is a Typekit.com font and needs to be explicitly added, it doesn't come with Rails or Bootstrap.

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Update:

The normalize and the font-awesome styles were being blocked since it was not being served in a secure protocol (https). Also, you're right Adrian, Proxima Nova is not in either (I don't know how the guy in the tutorial had no problem)

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I'm glad you figured it out though. Yea his Rails tutorials are hard to follow and he doesn't really explain why he does things. I think he expects people to just follow along blindly or what. He's a really good designer though.

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For some awesome Rails tutorials stick with GoRails.com or DriftingRuby and Railscasts.

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Thanks for the tip! Yeah, GoRails is pretty awesome and clear :)

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