Fun with an Amazon Echo, Ruby and Recipes
summary
Built an Alexa skill that links Cookpad recipes to voice by using a Ruby Alexa gem (Alexa Ruby Kit), a Rails endpoint served via ngrok, and Amazon account linking/OAuth. Core feature is an ingredient_quantity intent with slot values (Amazon allows up to 50,000 entries) that looks up the current recipe and replies quantities; demos mostly work (returns “a pinch” for salt) but account linking and slot matching are flaky (semolina failed).
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 3:37Cooking with Alexa idea
- 9:14Ruby and Alexa integration
- 12:09Account linking process
- 17:31Demo and testing
- 22:20Recap and future plans
- 24:27Closing and plugs
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