Rails - Jun 2005 - require problem

I''m having a real problem that appears to be caused by something in the
standard test_helper.  I''ve written a script (below) that should find
and
load all the unit tests, and when invoked (ruby unitTestSuite), should run 
all the tests in the unit_test directory.  This actually works well, in 
general.

The problem I have is that if the standard "test_helper.rb" file is
"required"
by the tests, then syntax errors in the tests are "eaten".  There is
no trace
that there is a problem with the script.  no exceptions, no failures, no 
"red-bar".  What is going on test_helper to cause this type of
problem?


Thanks
David


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def requireAllTests(pattern)
   Dir.glob(pattern).each do |file|
     $stderr.puts file
     require file
   end
end

requireAllTests("test/unit/**/*_test.rb")