Dynamic-Alexa-Skill-Using-Ruby-On-Lambda

This is a dynamic Alexa skill using ruby on lambda.

Skill Setup

(This part expects you to have written a skill before. When I have time I will update with full instructions.)

• Setup a new Alexa Skill, Ruby Lambda, and connect them.
• In the lambda change the rss_url inside SiteRssParser class to the feed you want.
• Update @application_id_check inside the lambda_handler with your skill id.
• Add your intents
  • If you create a next intent in the Alexa developer portal, you need to create an on_next method in your lambda.
• End this on_ method with a response.
  • In this lambda I only used speak_text, so I not sure if the other methods work.
  • response.speak_text("see ya!") will have Alexa say "see ya!" and end the skill.
  • response.speak_text("keep going?", false) will have Alexa say "keep going?" and keep the skill open.
  • response.speak_text("see ya!", false, {'step': 5}) will have Alexa act the same as the previous and add 'step': 5 to the session attribute
    • You can retrieve this attribute by using @session_attributes['step']

This is adapted code, check out the original by Ryan Cunningham at https://github.com/rcunning/lambda.rb.

There is a beautiful hello-world-alexa example which will show you how to chain response methods.

Tweaks/Updates

• Condensed it into one file and updated the lambda handler.
• Updated the Amazon intents. There are a few necessary intents and now those are included with simple phrases.
• Gave 'speak_text' method 2 optional parameters. First is end session and second is session attribute object. These will be explained in use section.
• Edited class variables
• Added and RSS Parser

Big Thanks

This wouldn't have been possible without Ryan's code!