what is the difference between exit and exit! in ruby?

What is the difference between exit and exit! in ruby?

What does exit do in Ruby?

The exit method simply raises a SystemExit exception. If it's uncaught, the program aborts just like it would with any other uncaught exception.

How do you exit a method in Ruby?

Exiting A Method Ruby methods end naturally on their last line of code. Use the return keyword.

How do you exit Ruby in terminal?

The => symbol lets you know that this is the return value from the Ruby expression. To exit IRB, type exit at the prompt, or press CTRL+D .

Couple things:

Exit handlers get run in the "exit" form but not "exit!". This means any code that is assigned to "clean-up" won't get run using "exit!"
The "exit status" is default set to false in the "exit!" form, whereas it is true in the "exit" form. The "exit status" is a message to the operating system about the program that is stopping execution.

they are both Kernel methods: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html

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