This doesn't seem to do justice to ruby. What about the huge string manipulation, array and hash standard libraries baked in to ruby that js simply doesn't have

This doesn't seem to do justice to ruby. What about the huge string manipulation, array and hash standard libraries baked in to ruby that js simply doesn't have? Taking into account a modern stack, a fairer comparison is Ruby + ActiveSupport vs. CS + Sugar.js. The closest thing to that is this one: http://sugarjs.com/libs/Ruby http://sugarjs.com/libs/Ruby