Jekyll and syntax highlighting

28 Nov 2019

Jekyll has a great support for syntax highlighting, by default, Jekyll utilizes Rouge^⇗, which is a pure ruby-based code highlighter. Rouge can highlight 100 different languages^⇗.

Code formatting can be done with {% highlight ruby %}.

As you can see, you especify the language right there, even line numbers are supported by adding linenos, ending with something like like:

 {% highlight ruby linenos%}

A full run would be like:

def print_hi(name)
  puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Tom')
#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.

Check out the Jekyll docs^⇗ for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll. File all bugs/feature requests at Jekyll’s GitHub repo^⇗.

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