[SOLVED] Syntax highlighting markdown code blocks in Jekyll (without using liquid tags)

Syntax highlighting markdown code blocks in Jekyll (without using liquid tags)

It seems like syntax highlighting in Jekyll is limited to using liquid tags and pygments like so:

{% highlight bash %}
cd ~
{% endhighlight %}

But I've imported my existing blog from wordpress and it was written in markdown (using markdown code blocks) and I don't want to have to go through each post and fix the code blocks. Also, I want to keep my posts in pure markdown format in case I ever need to switch blogging platforms again.

I switched my Jekyll parser to redcarpet with the hope that I could use this markdown syntax:

```bash
cd ~
```

But it doesn't seem to work. It just wraps it in a normal code block. Any ideas?

Solution

I ended up switching to kramdown to parse markdown which comes with coderay for syntax highlighting. This has the benefit of being a pure ruby solution which works on heroku.