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Adding Google Web Fonts to a Sproutcore app

Yesterday I was playing with the Hubbub   Sproutcore app that is just plain beautiful (and useful, if anyone used it over here in stodgy Italy). Anyway I noticed that the beautiful texts on the home page are not images, but actual text with fonts. I did not know I had such great fonts on my computer and in fact I don't. Those fonts come from Google Web Fonts  and you can use them too, right away in any of your web apps or sites. Since I am working on a Sproutcore app that could use some beauty I decided to style the app name with this font. Now, if only I knew how to add the css link to the html generated by abbot... [/me is gtfw & source browsing for a good 30 mins...] The solution turns out to be pretty simple and elegant (as everything in SC world, wink wink). Open the Buildfile in your favourite editor and add a stylesheet_libs option to the project config as follows: config :all do |c| c[:javascript_libs] = ['http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?v=3