Matching balanced parenthesis in Ruby using recursive regular expressions like perl

I have been looking for a way to match balanced parenthesis in a regex and found a way in Perl, that uses a recursive regular expression:

my $re;
$re = qr{
           \(
              (?:
                 (?> [^()]+ )       # Non-parens without backtracking
                 |
                 (??{ $re })        # Group with matching parens
              )*
           \)
         }x;

from the perl regular expression site .

Is there a way to do this in Ruby or a similar language?

UPDATE:

For those interested here are some interesting links:

Oniguruma manual - from Sawa's answer.

Pragmatic Programmers' Ruby 1.9 Regular Expressions Sample Chapter