Installing Redcarpet Highlighter

Installing redcarpet

If you want to use the redcarpet Markdown engine instead then first install it.

gem install redcarpet

Then update your _config.yml file to have the following lines

markdown: redcarpet

To get Github-esque features (such as tables etc) enable the following extension in your _config.yml file

redcarpet:
  extensions: ["no_intra_emphasis", "fenced_code_blocks", "autolink", "tables", "strikethrough", "superscript", "with_toc_data"]

Error dependency for redcarpet not found

In case you get dependency errors for redcarpet after installing it. Try removing all the data from your projects Gemfile and replacing it with

source 'https://rubygems.org'
group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem "redcarpet"
end