Thanks to James Brooks Github has just added support for Blade syntax highlighting on both your repos and Gists. This was added in from a pull request by James and then merged and deployed today.
Here is an example of a sample Gist showing it in use:
The highlighting should all happen automatically as long as you use the default .blade.php file extension.
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