How to embed gist samples in Google Sites


To make sure that your blogger and your site always reference the same (latest) version of your code samples, and that the formatting is consistent across your site and your  blog, you should consider using github to be the master for all your code samples. Take a look at how to embed gist in Blogger in this post. Here we'll cover how to do the same thing in Google Sites (which is hosting this site).

GitHub

This is a free repository (and version management system) for code samples. Just register and you're ready to create your first code sample (or gist as they are referred to). Of course Google Sites restricts what you can do, so although github provides a perfectly good piece of javaScript to embed a sample, you have to implement a gadget to host it. I came across this gadget from derquinse, so let's use that one.

Example

We'll use the code sample for Simple implementation of R- melt to embed the code from this gist. Here is the XML file needed http://gadgets.derquinse.net/gist-github/gist-github-gadget.xml

Derquinse Gist.GitHub Gadget



And it Works! Now my site will be automatically updated if I change the code. 

Using Google Apps Script

Another way is to use the caja prettifier  wrapped up in Google Apps Script. You can read about how this works here. This time we use a simple iFrame gadget, and embed a URL like this

http://xliberation.com/p/gaspubcontainer.html?source=gist&library=3357942

Here is the same thing - 

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