From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-02-08T21:14:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there something built-in for this ?

Thibaut Barrère wrote:
>> begin
>> � system(cmd)
>> rescue NameError => e
>> � puts e
>> end
>>
>> ... Does that help you ?
> 
> hum -- not sure actually. Is system() supposed to raise a NameError ?
> I didn't see this mentioned in the docs.
> 

Easy enough to test:

begin
  result = system("made up command")
  puts result
rescue NameError => e
  puts e
end

--output:--
false

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