AlexaRuby

Originally forked from damianFC's AlexaRubykit, this gem implements a back-end service for interaction with Amazon Alexa API.

Installation

To install and use gem in your project just add this to your Gemfile:

gem 'alexa_ruby'

And bundle it with:

$ bundle install

Or install it as a separate gem:

$ gem install alexa_ruby

Usage

Gem provides methods to handle requests from Amazon Alexa skill and to sent it a proper response.

You can quickly try it with that sample code:

require 'alexa_ruby'

response = AlexaRuby::Response.new
response.add_speech('Yay, ruby is running!')
response.build_response

It will generate valid outspeech JSON:

{
  "version": "1.0",
  "response": {
    "outputSpeech": {
      "type": "PlainText",
      "text": "Yay, ruby is running!"
    },
    "shouldEndSession": true
  }
}

Testing

Run the tests using

bundle exec rspec --color --format=documentation