Jekyll::IncludeSnippet

Include snippets of text from external files into your markdown

Installation

Add it to your Gemfile (in a way that Jekyll will load):

source 'https://rubygems.org'

group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem 'jekyll-include_snippet'
end

Usage

Put the special "begin-snippet" and "end-snippet" comments into your source file:

# blah.rb

class Blah
  # begin-snippet: my_method_snippet
  def blah
    puts 'blah blah blah'
  end
  # end-snippet
end

Use it from your markdown:

---
title: "My Blerg Post"
date: "2018-01-01"
---

Blah blah here is some code:

```ruby
{% include_snippet my_method_snippet from path/to/blah.rb %}
```

Optionally, you can set a default source path in the YAML frontmatter:

---
title: "My Blerg Post"
date: "2018-01-01"
snippet_source: "path/to/blah.rb"
---

```ruby
{% include_snippet my_method_snippet %}
```

Languages Other Than Ruby

If you're using another language, you will probably need to change the "comment prefix".

---

title: "My Blerg Post" date: "2018-01-01" snippet_comment_prefix: "//"

---

  {% include_snippet whatever from whatever.js %}

// whatever.js

// begin-snippet: whatever
function whatever() {
  console.log("Hello there");
}
// end-snippet

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

TODO

• Could easily be optimised for better performance
• Maybe a feature for evaluating code and including the result