Embed code files into Jekyll posts ala gist Written by Guillermo Garron

Date: 2013-06-08 13:22:35 00:00

I have finally decided to start learning Ruby, and actually learn to code. I know this is going to be hard, as I am 40 years old already and I know is harder now than when I was 20.

As a child I have seen some Basic programming language, and later a few of C++, where I learn a little about sub-routines and classes. I have been reading about Ruby, and it seems not to easy.

Considering I am going to learn fast, and that I will be sharing some small and simple snippets of code in this blog, I wanted to prepare the blog for that.

"All the cool guys use gists today". Well, maybe I am not so cool, or maybe because of I do not like the cloud, I am not going to use gists to share my code.

What I want is to put my code files in a special folder inside the structure of Jekyll, and from there embed its content into blog posts. I have been looking for some plugin that already does that. I could not find such a plugin, but I have found this one. Modifying the code a little, I have ended with this:

{% gist 1.txt %}

This is how it works.

You create a folder "_code" in the root of Jekyll structure

You put your code files there, example: "_code/my-first-code.rb"

Inside the post you want this file embedded you enter this: {% raw %}{% gist my-first-code.rb %}{% endraw %}

You are done, the contents of that file is going to be embedded into the Jekyll post between <pre><code></code></pre> html tags.

Hope this may be useful to someone