From: Edgars Beigarts Date: 2011-08-24T16:22:52+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:39080] [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5218] at_exit bug with exception handling Issue #5218 has been updated by Edgars Beigarts. To fix ruby 1.9 I came up with this workaround: if defined?(RUBY_ENGINE) && RUBY_ENGINE == "ruby" && RUBY_VERSION >= "1.9" module Kernel alias :__at_exit :at_exit def at_exit(&block) __at_exit do exit_status = $!.status if $!.is_a?(SystemExit) block.call exit exit_status if exit_status end end end end ---------------------------------------- Bug #5218: at_exit bug with exception handling http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5218 Author: Edgars Beigarts Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0] It seems that ruby 1.9.2 and later doesn't like exception handling in `at_exit` blocks and resets the exit code to 0. Here is an example: #!/usr/bin/ruby at_exit do raise "X" rescue nil end at_exit do nil end at_exit do exit 1 end at_exit do exit 2 end Results: ### ruby 1.9.4dev (2011-08-23 trunk 33027) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0] $ ruby at_exit.rb ; echo $? 0 ### ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-07-31 revision 32789) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0] $ ruby at_exit.rb ; echo $? 0 ### ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0] $ ruby at_exit.rb ; echo $? 0 ### ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i686-darwin10.8.0] $ ruby at_exit.rb ; echo $? 1 ### jruby 1.6.3 (ruby-1.8.7-p330) (2011-07-07 965162f) (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_26) [darwin-x86_64-java] $ jruby at_exit.rb ; echo $? 1 ### jruby 1.6.3 (ruby-1.9.2-p136) (2011-07-07 965162f) (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_26) [darwin-x86_64-java] $ jruby --1.9 at_exit.rb ; echo $? 1 Related issues: https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara/pull/463 https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara/issues/178 https://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/pull/410 -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org