jackster the jackle wrote:
> I notice that any shell commands that I have in the script that fail do 
> not trigger a Ruby exception, how do I get my Ruby script to send these?

Check the return value of #system, like this:

irb(main):002:0> unless system "false"; puts "failed!"; end
failed!
=> nil

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