How to embed CSS3 fonts in Rails 3.0.9

I’m using Rails 3.0.9, and I want to use @font-face CSS3 feature to
embed
fonts in my app. Here’s my CSS.

@font-face {

@font-face {
}

I have all the font files ready thanks to http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
but
my questions is where should I put them? I tried putting them in
/public/fonts/ making changes to the url part of the CSS above to
‘…/fonts/fontfile’ but that doesn’t work. I also tried putting them in
/vendor/assets/fonts/, which I believe is the convention for Rails 3.1.
I’ve also tried the CSS outside of Rails and it works fine.