CoffeeScript (GitHub repo ) is a new programming language with a pure Ruby compiler.
Creator Jeremy Ashkenas calls it "JavaScript's less ostentatious kid brother" - mostly because it compiles into JavaScript and shares most of the same constructs, but with a different, tighter syntax.
To get a feel for the language, check out this example code (CoffeeScript on the left, resulting JavaScript on the right):
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