Allow outer shebangs so FQL files can be used as scripts

[ngirard]

Hey,
let me start by expressing my gratitude for your efforts into this nice project !

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Ferret is greatly overlooked for front-end testing of Web applications... it might bring more visibility to describe it as suitable for both web scrapping and testing, what do you think ?

Anyway, I'm intending to use it for front-end testing in my current project. What I have in mind is to write each test as a set of FQL instructions, and to organize the tests themselves as targets in a justfile file, i.e. leveraging Just which is, in a nutshell, a build automation tool with a simple syntax.

A great addition to this workflow would be the ability for Ferret to consider FQL files as scripts. This would allow my justfile to look like:

test1:
    #!/usr/bin/env ferret
    LET doc=DOCUMENT('xxxxx')
    .....

test2:
    #!/usr/bin/env ferret
    LET doc=DOCUMENT('xxxxx')
    .....

tests: test1 test2

Incidentally, Just is capable of that, so I can provide you with a link so you figure out how it was implemented -- sorry for not being able to give you an example in Go, I'm more of a rustacean.

Well, I hope you'll consider adding this feature, and in any case I'd be interested in having your thoughts about it.
Cheers !

[ziflex]

Hey,

Thank you for your kind words. Indeed, you can use Ferret for UI testing and it's one of the project's goals!
You might want to look at other tool from our ecosystem - Lab. It does exactly what you are looking for!

I started working on improving our website and documentation, so there will be new articles and guides that will cover both cases - scraping and testing.

[ziflex]

Here and here you can find examples of how it's used.

[ziflex]

I totally forgot that we do have a blog post about Lab - check it out.
Let me know if this helps or not.

[ngirard]

Ha ! Great post indeed, thanks ! I skipped it when it was published because I wasn't feeling much concerned back then, then totally forgot about it...

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