Issue #4658 has been updated by Shota Fukumori. Category set to lib Assignee set to Ryan Davis minitest has an upstream. Could report same issue to at the following url? http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=4097&group_id=1040&func=browse ---------------------------------------- Bug #4658: Minitest - invalid return code when using MiniTest::Unit.after_tests http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4658 Author: Robert Pankowecki Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Ryan Davis Category: lib Target version: ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [i686-linux] If test fails and MiniTest::Unit.after_tests is used then the program returned code is 0 but it should not be. Here is my current workaround: MiniTest::Unit.after_tests do status = ($! && $!.respond_to?(:status) && $!.status) || 0 # do something... exit(status) end -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org