Jekyll: Highlighting code snippets using markdown syntax

Question

The Jekyll docs state that code highlighting is done using Liquid tags as follows:

{% highlight ruby %}
def show
  @widget = Widget(params[:id])
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # show.html.erb
    format.json { render json: @widget }
  end
end
{% endhighlight %}

However, I would rather like to use Markdown syntax:

```ruby
def foo
  puts 'foo'
end
```

I tried it myself the following way:

``` ini
; Disables the splash screen, if it has been compiled into the launcher.
RunLocally=true
```

However, the result does not look the way it should.

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I am not entirely sure whether it was a caching issue on Github or a missing config setting but I added markdown: redcarpet to _config.yml and now code samples are rendered using the markdown syntax. — orschiro
– orschiro, Commented Nov 30, 2013 at 18:31

Rag · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-14 03:31:14Z

10

I had to add the following to my _config.yml to get my GitHub Pages syntax highlighting to work:

markdown: redcarpet
extensions: [fenced_code_blocks]

I don't know why fenced_code_blocks is required for GitHub Pages, since it's supposed to be enabled by default in Jekyll.

answered Jan 14, 2014 at 3:31

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ManuelSchneid3r Over a year ago

Does this hold for Jekyll 3?

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