Can Jekyll include source code from other sources than gist?

Question

I would like to include highlighted source code within a post.

I know that you can include a gist like this:

{% gist 5555251 %}

But can you also include arbitrary source code from a local file?

Answer 1

There are different ways, a bit slow but easy just using something like http://highlightjs.org

Or you can use jekyll with pygments:

Install: apt-get install python-pygments
configure in _config: pygments: true
Create the highlithing css: pygmentize -S default -f html > stylesheets/pygments.css

Don't forget to load the css in your page! source: http://www.stehem.net/2012/02/14/how-to-get-pygments-to-work-with-jekyll.html

Or you can use Github flavored Markdown:

configure in _config: markdown: redcarpet

I'm not sure but i think you need to install the redcarpet gem and pygments manually that it work.

source: Github flavored Markdown and pygments highlighting in Jekyll

Use the SyntaxHighlighter-Plugin

• Include the source for SyntaxHighlighter you need at minimum: shCore.css, shThemeDefault.css and shCore.js
• Include for each language the corespondending shBrush.js like shBrushRuby.js for ruby
• Add at the end of your page <script type="text/javascript">SyntaxHighlighter.all()</script> to inizialize the plugin
• Wrap your code in {% SyntaxHighlighter lang %} and {% endSyntaxHighlighter %} replace lang by the language of your code
• Copy SyntaxHighlighter.rb in your _plugins folder

example project https://bitbucket.org/l33tname/jekyll-syntaxhighlighter/src