Here's the equivalent for Ruby:

    alias glorp='ruby -ane '

    $ [data is generated] | glorp ' ~ /Something/ and puts $F[2]'

Or:

    $ echo -e '{"hello":"world"}\n{"hello":"cat"}' | glorp 'puts JSON.load($_)["hello"] ' -rjson

(Of course Ruby got the -a autosplit-mode and the -n assumed 'while gets(); ... end' loop from Perl along with $_ and $F, so it's very intentional that they're similar)