Witzmaschine

Alexa Custom Skill you may ask to tell you silly jokes. German language only.

Developed as Amazon Alexa Custom Skill using the Sinatra Ruby DSL with Dan Elbert's Alexa Skill Ruby gem.

The Skill's Web Service is hosted on the Heroku platform.

Development environment

After cloning this repository you need to install Ruby, rbenv and Bundler and than run Bundler on the Gemfile.

$ rbenv local 2.2.0
$ bundle install
$ rbenv rehash

Test localy with ngrok. Do not forget to adopt Alexa endpoint to ngrok's changing forwarding address.

$ rackup -p 3000
$ ngrok http 3000 

Production environment

The following environment variables need to be set:

• RACK_ENV: production (default for Heroku)
• APPLICATION_ID, the Amazon Skill Id
• WEB_CONCURRENCY, optional, default is 2
• RAILS_MAX_THREADS, optional, default is 5
• PORT, optional, default is 3000