Embedding Gists
by Nathan White
Posted on 24 May 2014 Tags: gists
Quick code formating with the help of github gists.
Including code snippets for review or explaination is pretty easy with the help of gists.
Creating a Gist
Goto gist.github.com. You should see a text editor with an area to add a description on the top. Either write or copy and paste your code snippet into the textarea. Don’t forget to provide a name for the file along with the target language (will auto detect from file extensions).
Once your content is ready. Click the “Create Gist” button. This should generate a custom url (page) for your code snippet as seen here (https://gist.github.com/nw/bcc9ee1e5d22ab952778).
We are going to use a part of that to embed into our blog post. The username/gist-id.
{% gist nw/bcc9ee1e5d22ab952778 %}
and the result: