> I'm not sure how much closer to describing your exact intent in English a language can get than: > successfully_made_executable = system 'chmod +x /us

> I'm not sure how much closer to describing your exact intent in English a language can get than: > successfully_made_executable = system 'chmod +x /usr/local/bin/hasura' > abort 'Failed making CLI executable' unless successfully_made_executable I guess, but if I was writing scripts like this, I'd really want to write a helper method something like: def system_or(cmd, fail_msg) system cmd || abort fail_msg end # and then system_or 'chmod +x /usr/local/bin/hasura', 'Failed making CLI executable' Instead of having to write every single `system` call as boilerplate two liners with an immediate-throwaway local var.