diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 0cca148f9..68f0ca603 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
     "slim/psr7": "^1.3.0",
     "monolog/monolog": "^3.0",
     "twig/twig": "^3.0",
-    "slim/twig-view": "^3.0"
+    "slim/twig-view": "^3.0",
+    "alrik11es/cowsayphp": "^1.2"
   },
   "require-dev": {
     "heroku/heroku-buildpack-php": "*"
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 85cccad59..b7e1172df 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,8 +4,66 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "0aa7148272c380d8d4d48317eb390443",
+    "content-hash": "64ddf7a335147fbd677355bc9b70c2d6",
     "packages": [
+        {
+            "name": "alrik11es/cowsayphp",
+            "version": "1.2.0",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/alrik11es/cowsayphp.git",
+                "reference": "080dc10c8f5420fef35163569293601f17124eeb"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/alrik11es/cowsayphp/zipball/080dc10c8f5420fef35163569293601f17124eeb",
+                "reference": "080dc10c8f5420fef35163569293601f17124eeb",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=5.6.0"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "5.*",
+                "scrutinizer/ocular": "~1.1"
+            },
+            "bin": [
+                "bin/cowsayphp"
+            ],
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-master": "1.0-dev"
+                }
+            },
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Cowsayphp\\": "src"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Marcos Sigueros",
+                    "email": "alrik11es@gmail.com",
+                    "homepage": "https://github.com/alrik11es",
+                    "role": "Developer"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Cowsay port in PHP",
+            "homepage": "https://github.com/alrik11es/cowsayphp",
+            "keywords": [
+                "cowsay"
+            ],
+            "support": {
+                "issues": "https://github.com/alrik11es/cowsayphp/issues",
+                "source": "https://github.com/alrik11es/cowsayphp/tree/master"
+            },
+            "time": "2016-08-25T07:53:44+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "fig/http-message-util",
             "version": "1.1.5",
diff --git a/views/database.twig b/views/database.twig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dd0fb30b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/views/database.twig
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{% extends "layout.html" %}
+
+{% block content %}
+<p>Got these rows from the database:</p>
+
+<ul>
+{% for n in names %}
+  <li> {{ n.name }} </li>
+{% else %}
+  <li><em>No entries yet!</em></li>
+{% endfor %}
+</ul>
+
+{% endblock %}
diff --git a/web/index.php b/web/index.php
index c1a82e533..c82c53030 100755
--- a/web/index.php
+++ b/web/index.php
@@ -25,6 +25,23 @@
   $logger->pushHandler(new StreamHandler('php://stderr'), Level::Debug);
   return $logger;
 });
+// Add Cowsay to Container
+$container->set(\Cowsayphp\AnimalInterface::class, function() {
+  $class = '\\Cowsayphp\\Farm\\'.(getenv("COWSAY_FARM_CLASS")?:'Cow');
+  return \Cowsayphp\Farm::create($class);
+});
+// Add Database connection to Container
+$container->set(PDO::class, function() {
+  $dburl = parse_url(getenv('DATABASE_URL') ?: throw new Exception('no DATABASE_URL'));
+  return new PDO(sprintf(
+    "pgsql:host=%s;port=%s;dbname=%s;user=%s;password=%s",
+    $dburl['host'],
+    $dburl['port'],
+    ltrim($dburl['path'], '/'), // URL path is the DB name, must remove leading slash
+    $dburl['user'],
+    $dburl['pass'],
+  ));
+});
 
 // Create main Slim app
 $app = Bridge::create($container);
@@ -35,5 +52,22 @@
   $logger->debug('logging output.');
   return $twig->render($response, 'index.twig');
 });
+$app->get('/coolbeans', function(Request $request, Response $response, LoggerInterface $logger, \Cowsayphp\AnimalInterface $animal) {
+  $logger->debug('letting the Cowsay library write something cool.');
+  $response->getBody()->write("<pre>".$animal->say("Cool beans")."</pre>");
+  return $response;
+});
+$app->get('/db', function(Request $request, Response $response, LoggerInterface $logger, Twig $twig, PDO $pdo) {
+  $st = $pdo->prepare('SELECT name FROM test_table');
+  $st->execute();
+  $names = array();
+  while($row = $st->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
+    $logger->debug('Row ' . $row['name']);
+    $names[] = $row;
+  }
+  return $twig->render($response, 'database.twig', [
+    'names' => $names,
+  ]);
+});
 
 $app->run();