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

Question

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

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

Answer 1

You can also use the triple-tilde syntax:

~~~ruby
class Base
  def two
    1 + 1
  end
end
~~~

which is supported by Kramdown (Jekyll).