It's been a while, but there was a lot of use of Groovy on Grails a few years ago for exactly this reason. I was a strong advocate of JRuby when we did run Ruby

It's been a while, but there was a lot of use of Groovy on Grails a few years ago for exactly this reason. I was a strong advocate of JRuby when we did run Ruby code, but it didn't get very far.