From: nathaniel@...
Date: 2003-02-12T11:45:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit exit status

Bil Kleb [mailto:William.L.Kleb@NASA.Gov] wrote:

> The version of testunit that I'm using doesn't appear to 
> return a non-zero exit status when it finds failures or errors.
> 
> Does a newer version set this, or does anyone have a patch
> to do this?  (I haven't browsed the source yet...)

Is there a way to set the exit status besides Kernel#exit(<status>)? The
difficulty is that the runners do not (and should not) explicitly exit.
One way around this is to do the following in the test you're running:

  exit(1)
unless(Test::Unit::UI::Console::TestRunner.start(MyTestSuite).passed?)

The other facet of this is automatic running via #at_exit, and I don't
think I can do anything there, either. The problem is that calling #exit
from an #at_exit block doesn't set the exit status (I guess because
#at_exit blocks happen after the official exit of the program).

I'd love to hear about other possibilities...


Nathaniel

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