Our tests are now guaranteed to not work on older versions of minitest, so I don't think we should swallow this activation error because it will make it very clear for the user what the problem is if she has a minitest version not satisfying the requirement.
Added by deivid (David RodrÃguez) over 5 years ago
[rubygems/rubygems] Don't swallow gem activation exception
Our tests are now guaranteed to not work on older versions of minitest,
so I don't think we should swallow this activation error because it will
make it very clear for the user what the problem is if she has a
minitest version not satisfying the requirement.
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/a291b65369