# Test::unit runner in eclipse rdt

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/test-unit-runner-in-eclipse-rdt/53654>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 13, 2006, 8:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/test-unit-runner-in-eclipse-rdt/53654 "2006-02-13T08:28:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![runxc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3ec8ea/32.png) [@runxc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/runxc)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 8:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/test-unit-runner-in-eclipse-rdt/53654/1 "2006-02-13T08:28:35Z")

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When i run the Test::Unit runner inside eclipse RDT, sometimes i get a  
grey bar instead of a green bar. Is the runner trying to tell me  
something about my tests or is this just a display glitch? I don’t have  
any errors or failures.

This seems to happen repeatedly with particular tests and suites. I’m  
using Eclipse 3.1.1 and RDT 0.6.0 and Ruby 1.8.2.

Bret

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**Author:** ![runxc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3ec8ea/32.png) [@runxc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/runxc)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/test-unit-runner-in-eclipse-rdt/53654/2 "2006-02-13T15:23:41Z")

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This is speculation, but I recall that when running Junit tests (i.e.,  
Java), the grey bar indicates that execution never finished. For  
example, if I was running under the debugger and I didn’t allow all  
the tests to finish. Could that be happening here?

dean

On 2/13/06, Bret P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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–  
Dean W.  
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**Author:** ![runxc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3ec8ea/32.png) [@runxc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/runxc)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/test-unit-runner-in-eclipse-rdt/53654/3 "2006-02-14T04:13:33Z")

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> This is speculation, but I recall that when running Junit tests (i.e.,  
> Java), the grey bar indicates that execution never finished. For  
> example, if I was running under the debugger and I didn’t allow all  
> the tests to finish. Could that be happening here?

I think that is it. I have some tests that exercise threads that spawn  
processes and i think there may be a problem that they don’t exit  
correctly.