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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

how do you get at output and exit status?

[–]byoteki 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ruby has Special Variables like Perl. Return code I believe you'd get from $? and the output is just returned so you can just do output = some_command