Hard to tell if somebody genuinely thinks this is a good idea or if it's just a major trolling exercise. For their sake I hope it's the latter.
There seems to be a phenomenon of coders who want to work in the browser but who refuse to touch a language they find aesthetically unpleasant. I would suggest OP go find something that compiles Ruby to Javascript and stop insisting the entire web be restructured because they find braces ugly.
(i personally love meteor coding with literate coffeescript, though)