AlexaRubykit

This gem implements a quick back-end service for deploying applications for Amazon's Echo (Alexa).

Installation

Sample Application

For a sample application video tutorial, check

Samples are provided by the alexa_rubyengine project: https://github.com/damianFC/alexa_rubyengine

For Ruby Projects:

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'alexa_rubykit'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install alexa_rubykit

Usage

This Gem provides methods to create and handle request and response objects to be used in your container of choice.

Sample usage:

require 'alexa_rubykit'
response = AlexaRubykit::Response.new
response.add_speech('Ruby is running ready!')
response.build_response

Will generate a valid outputspeech response in JSON format:

$ {"version":"1.0","response":{"outputSpeech":{"type":"PlainText","text":"Ruby is running ready!"},"shouldEndSession":true}}

Troubleshooting

There are two sources of troubleshooting information: the Amazon Echo app/website and the EBS logs that you can get from the management console.

• "Error in SSL handshake" : Make sure your used the FQDN when you generated the SSL and it's also the active SSL in EBS.
• "Error communicating with the application" : Query the EBS logs from the management console and create an issue on GitHub.

Contributing

1. Decide to work on the "dev" (unstable) branch or "master" (stable)
2. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/alexa_rubykit/fork )
3. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create a new Pull Request

All development is done in the "dev" branch before being merged to master. Applications can use the developer environment by adding the following line to their Gemfile:

gem 'alexa_rubykit', :git => 'https://github.com/damianFC/alexa-rubykit.git', :branch => 'dev'

To use the stable/master branch, rename 'dev' to 'master' or remove :branch all together.

Team Members

• "Damian Finol" damian.finol@gmail.com
• "Dave Shapiro" dss.shapiro@gmail.com