Thank you very much for this! However, there’s a small problem with this.

In bash $? means the exit status of the last command only! So, when you run this:

./scripts/run-brakeman.bash
./scripts/run-tests.bash
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "Brakeman and Tests must pass before pushing!"
  exit 1
fi

If your run-brakeman.bash script fails, but your run-tests.bash script is successful, your $? variable will equal 0 , and the commit will be pushed upstream. A quick and dirty fix for this is to execute both scripts together. Like so:

./scripts/run-brakeman.bash && ./scripts/run-tests.bash
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "Brakeman and Tests must pass before pushing!"
  exit 1
fi

This way, if either one fails, the $? variable will be non-zero.