the only small detail i am not sure about is why selecting YES in the prompt is not working with expect/send .... when i manually tried, it was enough to press Y (that is what i send in line 37 on the bats test followed by a return key press)... but with automatic bats tests the selection remained on NO... no biggie, that way we dont get a super user which we dont need anyway but i would have been curious why it is not picking up on the entry of y

the only small detail i am not sure about is why selecting YES in the prompt is not working with expect/send

I don't think it's working properly, I don't see any user in the database, I noticed that it creates a file in the users folder, when I run it manually, so:

run ddev php please make:user [email protected] --password=admin1234 --super --no-interaction
assert_file_exist users/[email protected]

i am either blind or not able to search properly the net. i searched everywhere if it would be possible not to use the prompt but a command line instead. what you've posted is exactly what i was searching for. that expect and send was buggy and also not really convenient. but there is one problem. when i test locally for assert file exist bats failes on macos with zsh with

  -- file does not exist --
   path : ./users/[email protected]
   --

but the file actually exists... on my manual test as well as commenting out the teardown and then examine the automatic bats output. in both cases the file exists with the proper content within the users directory

file does not exist

Probably the same thing as here #7114:

ddev mutagen sync

@ is a special character in lots of languages. Make sure your assert is protecting it. Or use a wildcard, etc. @ is usually used for array in bash.

i've tried escaping the @ but that had no effect. and the error output was the same no matter the @ was escaped or not. so the character was already handled properly. but stas'es suspicion was the right one, a mutagen sync fixed it. i will never ever forget again to sync mutagen after any file was altered or created. thank you!