Bryan Helmkamp

Today I’d like to announce the first real release of features2cards 0.1.1. The code has been sitting in my GitHub repository for awhile now, but I thought it was time to give it a formal release announcement.

features2cards is a simple tool to generate a printable PDF of scenario cards from Cucumber feature files. At weplay, we use this at the start of each sprint to get out Scrum task board up-to-date. Interally, features2cards uses the Cucumber feature parser and Prawn for PDF generation (in native Ruby!).

I’ve uploaded the gem and you should be able to install it off RubyForge very soon:

sudo gem install features2cards

Here’s how you use it:

features2cards features/scale_rails.feature

This will generate a file called cards.pdf in the current directory. Open that up, print it, and you’ve got cards ready to be chopped up and stuck to your Agile task board.

That’s all there is to it for now. Fork away. It’s only 150 lines including whitespace. I’d be happy to add additional formats, color support and other enhancements.

Special thanks to Luke Melia. His pdf-storycards project inspired this.