Two Jekyll Liquid tags to display a code sample from a file in a public Github repo and provide a reference to it.

• First add the gem to your Gemfile

gem 'jekyll_github_sample'

• bundle to install the gem
• Add the gem to your Jekyll _config.yml

gems: [jekyll_github_sample]

• Startup or relaunch Jekyll

A write up on my Jekyll blog including samples referencing this repo's code, meta.

{% github_sample URL_WITH_USERNAME_REPO_AND_FILE <START_LINE_NUMBER> <END_LINE_NUMBER> %}

• URL_WITH_USERNAME_REPO_AND_FILE - the relative path to the Github repo file, prefer a file with the commitish in it so it won't change when recompiling occurs. A url to this README would be: bwillis/jekyll-github-sample/blob/a3bc9e82412d364aa76e9308ab53ff2bddaa2faf/README.md
• START_LINE_NUMBER - (optional) number that is the first line to include (0 based)
• END_LINE_NUMBER - (optional) number that is the last line to include, if excluded will read to end of file

{% github_sample_ref URL_WITH_USERNAME_REPO_AND_FILE %}

• URL_WITH_USERNAME_REPO_AND_FILE - the relative path to the Github repo file, prefer a file with the commitish in it so it won't change when recompiling occurs. A url to this README would be: bwillis/jekyll-github-sample/blob/a3bc9e82412d364aa76e9308ab53ff2bddaa2faf/README.md

This is how you would display, reference and highlight code in your Jekyll post.

{% github_sample_ref /bwillis/versioncake/989237901cb873f96df12be48cbf1239be496bd7/Appraisals %}
{% highlight ruby %}
{% github_sample /bwillis/versioncake/989237901cb873f96df12be48cbf1239be496bd7/Appraisals 0 5 %}
{% endhighlight %}

Thanks to all those who have helped make this really awesome:

• heedfull

Jekyll Github Sample is released under the MIT license: www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT