I should be specific. I am running rake test:units and
test:functionals separately, because rake test runs units and
functionals but then fails with an odd Oracle error. I will
investigate and see whether plain rake test gives the expected return
value.
what versions of Rake and the Oracle adapter are you using? I was running into an odd problem a few months back with a finalizer defined in the MySQL adapter that had a bug and would cause somewhat random testing failures in rake which would go away if I tried to --trace them or even run test:units explicitly.