Improving a prior fix for jRuby users, and other people who were stil…

…l experiencing problems

lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy.rb

@@ -94,9 +94,14 @@ def with_env(name, value)
 # returns the command output as a string
 def run_locally(cmd)
   logger.trace "executing locally: #{cmd.inspect}" if logger
-  `#{cmd}` and (raise LocalArgumentError("#{cmd} returned status #{$?.to_i}") if ($?.to_i > 0))
+  output_on_stdout = `#{cmd}`
+  if $?.to_i > 0 # $? is command exit code (posix style)
+    raise Capistrano::LocalArgumentError, "Command #{cmd} returned status code #{$?}"
+  end
+  output_on_stdout
 end
 
+
 # If a command is given, this will try to execute the given command, as
 # described below. Otherwise, it will return a string for use in embedding in
 # another command, for executing that command as described below.