From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2007-05-23T11:40:30+09:00
Subject: test/unit autorun fails to set exit status on failure

Consider the elementary unit test that fails...

=try.rb===============================================================
require 'test/unit'

class TC_OurTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
    def test_fail
       assert(false, 'Assertion was false.')
    end
end
======================================================================
What is its exit status?

ruby -w try.rb
echo $?
0

If I look in
   /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit.rb
I see at the end the following code...

----------------------------------------------------------------------
at_exit do
   unless $! || Test::Unit.run?
     exit Test::Unit::AutoRunner.run
   end
end
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Now try this chunk of code...

==atexittoolate.rb====================================================

at_exit do
   exit( 1)
end

======================================================================
ruby -w atexittoolate.rb;echo $?
0

If I change that to...
==atexittoolate.rb====================================================

at_exit do
   exit( 1)
end
exit(2)
======================================================================
ruby -w atexittoolate.rb;echo $?
2


Bottom line: at_exit seems to be too late (Under ruby-1.8.6 linux
anyway) to set the exit status.


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